Reviewers use score cards to evaluate and score the applications they review.
Select a review group in the Review tab, then click the Rubric Setup tab to begin creating scoring criteria. You can set up score cards for manual review and/or auto-scoring.
Score Cards for Manual Review
To create a score card, click For Manual Review under the Create New Card section.
Enter your Score Card Name (e.g., Financial Need) and the Points (e.g., 5). Click Save to save your new score card in the review group.
You can add as few or as many score cards as you'd like, which will all populate under the Score Cards section on the page.
Note: In order for applications to be visible to a Reviewer, you will need to create at least one score card in the review group.
To remove a score card from a review group, expand it and click Delete.
Score Cards for Auto-Scoring
If you'd like numeric scoring completed automatically, you can create a new score card for auto-scoring.
Using the previous example, we'll delete the Financial Need and GPA score cards we created for manual review, then recreate them for auto-scoring.
Note: Auto-scoring can only be set up for numeric data (i.e., questions that accept numeric values only).
Start with giving your score card a name and points. We'll create a GPA score card first.
Under the Auto-scoring Rules section, pick the question from your application that the rules will apply to. In this case, that is the GPA question.
Once you've done so, click Add Condition to start setting up the rules for auto-scoring.
In the Select Answer dropdown, you'll need to specify which range should be targeted based on the value that you add, and the score an applicant in that range should receive—for this first category, we'll set up a rule requiring the student to be scored with the maximum score of 5 if their GPA is higher than or equal to 3.5.
Leave no gaps between rules. Each rule should start where the previous one ends. A value that doesn't match any rule earns 0 points. For example, if rule 1 is 3.5 or higher and rule 2 is 3.0 to 3.4, a GPA of 3.45 matches neither rule and earns 0 points.
To help you better understand how a student will be scored and if the rules you've set up are correct (or fit your needs), you can use the Test Rules feature (located under the rules you've set up).
Enter a value to see how many points the student will receive.
Rules can share a boundary value, but they can't overlap. If rule 1 is 3.5 or higher, rule 2 can run from 3.0 to 3.5. A value exactly on the boundary (3.5) goes to the first rule it matches. If a rule's range extends into an earlier rule's range, AwardSpring shows an error asking you to adjust it. In the example below, rule 2 runs to 3.6, which overlaps rule 1, so the error asks you to adjust it to 3.5.
Create rules in descending order, from the highest value to the lowest. AwardSpring checks them in order, so the first rule takes priority on a boundary value.
To save your auto-score card, click the Save & Apply button.
Note: Once you click this button auto-scoring will be applied based on the rules you've set up, meaning that scores will populate for applicants in the review group where you've created them.
We also created a Financial Need score card for auto-scoring, and the scoring board is now finalized. Auto-score cards have the circling arrows icon. This leaves the Essay scorecard for our Reviewers to complete manually.
How does auto-scoring impact your Reviewers?
Reviewers see the score on their end but can't edit it. Following the example in this article, once they've scored an applicant on their essay, the scoring is completed/finalized.