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All grade 3 – 12 students and teachers should now be using the revised generic scoring rubrics to prepare for future Grade 5, Grade 8 or Regents-level social studies examinations. The respective rating guides used to score each examination are now based on these revised rubrics.
Where necessary, revisions were made to the rubrics to better explain the criteria for scoring each specific score point. Only minor changes were made to the general criteria for scoring the essays and are based on comments from social studies teachers and a review of past operational examinations and rating guides. The revised generic rubrics provide additional criteria on which to base a score of zero and address the issue of essays in which the student copied too much information directly from the documents.
The Revised Grade 5 DBQ
Generic Scoring Rubric (PDF)
For use beginning in November 2007
The Revised Grade 8 DBQ
Generic Scoring Rubric (PDF)
For use beginning in June 2005
The Revised Global History and Geography and United States History and
Government Generic Scoring Rubrics (PDF)
Global History and Geography: For use beginning
in June 2004
United States History and Government: For use
beginning in January 2005