How many topics are available?
Currently, there are 61 College Level I topics appropriate for first-year writing courses, practice and placement; 64 College Level II topics appropriate for second-year writing courses and practice; 10 College Preparatory topics; 14 GRE topics; and 35 TOEFL® topics. The Criterion topics library also contains a group of basic skills writing assignments drawn from grade 11 and 12 topics called “College Level/Preparatory.” These topics are graded against a lower-level scoring rubric and can be assigned to gradually move incoming freshman up to the first-year writing level. In addition, when educators want students to write on a topic not available in the Criterion library, they can create and assign their own prompt for a student assignment. Although essays written on educator-created topics do not receive the holistic score, all of the features of diagnostic feedback will be reported when the essay is submitted. Colleges and universities can also work with ETS to create new topics tailo
The Criterion library encompasses grade-school to graduate-level topics. Currently, there are 44 topics for grades 4-8; 29 topics for grades 9-12; 11 topics for the first two years of college; 14 topics for the GRE® test; and 22 topics for the TOEFL® test. Teachers have the flexibility to select a topic from any grade level and use it in another grade level; that topic will now receive a holistic score based on the grade-level standard. Using this Instructor Topic Scored feature, the teacher can assign any topic in the library to their students on grade level. And teachers can use the topics at the designated grade to be scored at that grade level.
