TurboWriter

Scoreboard

TurboWriter's scoreboard feature can add interest to the authoring process, and can provide incentive for performance in executing the project.

To provide the scoreboard feature, TurboWriter automatically maintains statistics on completed assignments, and uses those statistics to compute scores for every project. Project managers can use the VIEW SCOREBOARD project permission to specify whether to make the scoreboard available to each project user.

The scoreboard is a flipcard, with Writer and Reviewer Scores on the front, and Statistics on the back. The Statistics panel shows counts of authoring features you can use when creating content, computed readability of the content, and performance data affecting scores.

Writer score, reviewer score, and readability calculations, all of which are performed at the time an assignment is completed, are described below.

Computing Writer Scores

TurboWriter computes writer scores as the sum of the scores for all completed write assignments. Each score is computed as follows:

For each completed write assignment: 10 points
For each anchor, image, list, and table: 1 bonus point
For each day late: -1 penalty point
For each checklist item not checkmarked by the reviewer: -1 penalty point

Computing Reviewer Scores

TurboWriter computes reviewer scores as the sum of the scores for all completed review assignments. Each score is computed as follows:

For each completed review assignment: 10 points
For each day late: -1 penalty point

Computing Readability

TurboWriter computes readability by the formula^* for Flesch reading-ease (FLES), one of the Flesch–Kincaid readability tests (click here for additional information).

Higher FLES scores indicate that the content is easier to read, with the following ranges as a guide:

~120: easiest
90.0–100.0: easily understood by an average 11-year-old student
60.0–70.0: easily understood by 13- to 15-year-old students
0.0–30.0: best understood by university graduates

^*Note that in applying the formula, TurboWriter estimates total syllables statistically, based on word lengths. As a result, readability score accuracy tends to vary with content length.

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