Essay Analysis with Assessment Rubric
When we submit essay assignments, sometimes there will have an assessment rubric for our reference for our outcomes. GPT chatbot can perform a similar evaluation for us. Although the results may not be the same as the actual person who evaluates the essay (or have the chance that GPT may not fully understand the rubric correctly), this can provide a reference to improve the essay, or seek advice from our tutor before the actual submission.
Steps
- Prepare the essay
- Input the rubric & essay
- Ask GPT to analysis
Essay Sample
To be an Engineer takes more than just go to engineering school. Taking engineering school is only the key to the door toward being engineer. The professional skill is the foundation in becoming Engineer. To achieve a successful Engineer, there is some essential factors.
Undergo professional training in the first and one of the essential step in the road of becoming Engineer. In the training we can learn the basic skill and decides which particular profession of engineering to study. For different profession, there is different training to learn the professional skill in different aspect. We should study the correspond subject to fulfill the requirement of the University and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers . These are the authorities to provide the certification to prove the skill we learnt.
Only learning the skill in not enough, we should also follow the regulations or rules set by the authorities. Safety regulations and certain requirement may affect the procedure for approving the product or the action to achieve the result.
We should also be creative, there is lots of things in our daily life that is related to engineering. We can generate innovative idea by inspecting the detail in our daily. We can create the new product, combining the product or improving the product to level up our quality of life.
The passion and attitude maybe the most important key factor to determine the upper limit of the career life. This is also the factor to determine our life. With passion in the job and life, everyday is a new challenge and opportunity to become a better man. With the passion, we will strive for excellent, we would like to find the way to achieve a better result. With passion, we would like to learn the latest technology and skill to keep up the world, or maybe, just maybe , even be a head of the world.
Sample use cases on this page:
With Simple Assessment Rubric
Assessment Rubric
Criteria: Content, Organization, Evidence, Style, Grammar
Scale: Excellent (5), Good (4), Fair (3), Poor (2), Unsatisfactory (1)
Prompt
Assessment Rubric:
Criteria: Content, Organization, Evidence, Style, Grammar
Scale: Excellent (5), Good (4), Fair (3), Poor (2), Unsatisfactory (1)
Essay:
To be an Engineer takes more than just go to engineering school. Taking engineering school is only the key to the door toward being engineer. The professional skill is the foundation in becoming Engineer. To achieve a successful Engineer, there is some essential factors.
Undergo professional training in the first and one of the essential step in the road of becoming Engineer. In the training we can learn the basic skill and decides which particular profession of engineering to study. For different profession, there is different training to learn the professional skill in different aspect. We should study the correspond subject to fulfill the requirement of the University and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers . These are the authorities to provide the certification to prove the skill we learnt.
Only learning the skill in not enough, we should also follow the regulations or rules set by the authorities. Safety regulations and certain requirement may affect the procedure for approving the product or the action to achieve the result.
We should also be creative, there is lots of things in our daily life that is related to engineering. We can generate innovative idea by inspecting the detail in our daily. We can create the new product, combining the product or improving the product to level up our quality of life.
The passion and attitude maybe the most important key factor to determine the upper limit of the career life. This is also the factor to determine our life. With passion in the job and life, everyday is a new challenge and opportunity to become a better man. With the passion, we will strive for excellent, we would like to find the way to achieve a better result. With passion, we would like to learn the latest technology and skill to keep up the world, or maybe, just maybe , even be a head of the world.
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Can you analyze the essay and provide the marks indicated in the assessment rubric?
GPT Response
Sure, here's my analysis of the essay according to the assessment rubric:
| Criteria | Rating | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Content | Fair (3) | The essay discusses the essential factors of becoming a successful engineer, but the content is somewhat limited and could benefit from more depth and detail. |
| Organization | Poor (2) | The essay lacks clear organization and structure, making it difficult to follow the author's argument. |
| Evidence | Poor (2) | The essay lacks sufficient evidence to support the claims made about becoming a successful engineer. |
| Style | Fair (3) | The writing style is generally clear, but there are some grammar and syntax errors that detract from the overall quality. |
| Grammar | Poor (2) | The essay contains several grammatical errors and typos that make it difficult to read in places. |
Overall, the essay received a score of 2.4 out of 5, which would generally be considered a "poor" or "unsatisfactory" performance according to the rubric. To improve the essay, the author could work on providing more detailed and specific content, organizing the essay more clearly, providing stronger evidence to support their claims, and improving their grammar and writing style.
With Full Assessment Rubric
In most situtation we have the full assessment rubric similar with the below sample, we may need to do some modification to let ChatGPT know the criteria standard, or upload in the system with supported ChatGPT like OpenAI or POE.
Sample Assessment Rubric
| Criteria | Excellent (5) | Good (4) | Fair (3) | Poor (2) | Unsatisfactory (1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content | The essay demonstrates a clear and thorough understanding of the topic, and presents well-researched and insightful arguments and ideas. | The essay demonstrates strong quality in all criteria. The content is well-researched and effectively supports the thesis statement. | The essay demonstrates satisfactory quality in all criteria. The content adequately supports the thesis statement, but may lack depth or originality. | The essay demonstrates inadequate quality in one or more criteria. The content may be unclear or unsupported. | The essay demonstrates very poor quality in one or more criteria. The content is unclear or unsupported. |
| Organization | The essay is well-structured and easy to follow, with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion that effectively support the thesis statement. | The essay is clear and logical, with good transitions between ideas. | The essay is adequate, but may be somewhat disjointed or difficult to follow. | The essay may be confusing or illogical. | The essay is confusing or illogical. |
| Evidence | The essay provides relevant and convincing evidence to support the arguments made, using credible sources and properly citing them. | The essay provides relevant and convincing evidence to support the arguments made, using credible sources and properly citing them. | The essay provides relevant evidence, but may be insufficient or not fully convincing. | The essay may provide irrelevant evidence or fail to cite sources properly. | The essay provides irrelevant evidence or fails to cite sources properly. |
| Style | The essay is written in a clear, concise, and engaging style that effectively communicates the author's ideas to the reader. | The essay is clear and concise, and effectively communicates the author's ideas. | The essay is adequate, but may lack engagement or originality. | The essay may be unclear or confusing. | The essay is unclear or confusing. |
| Grammar | The essay is free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and adheres to the conventions of academic writing. | The essay is strong, with only minor errors. | The essay is adequate, but may contain several errors. | The essay may contain numerous errors. | The essay contains numerous errors and significantly impairs the readability of the essay. |
Convert the rubric in text format manually
As some ChatGPT interface may not read the content correctly if copy the information in table format directly in the text prompt, so this is better to convert a text version which try to let GPT understand more clearly the assessment criteria, the following is one format for the rubric to be input in the GPT prompt:
Sample of a text-based rubric
[Content]
Excellent (5):
The essay demonstrates a clear and thorough understanding of the topic, and presents well-researched and insightful arguments and ideas.
Good (4):
The essay demonstrates strong quality in all criteria. The content is well-researched and effectively supports the thesis statement.
Fair (3):
The essay demonstrates satisfactory quality in all criteria. The content adequately supports the thesis statement, but may lack depth or originality.
Poor (2):
The essay demonstrates inadequate quality in one or more criteria. The content may be unclear or unsupported.
Unsatisfactory (1):
The essay demonstrates very poor quality in one or more criteria. The content is unclear or unsupported.
[Organization]
Excellent (5):
The essay is well-structured and easy to follow, with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion that effectively support the thesis statement.
Good (4):
The essay is clear and logical, with good transitions between ideas.
Fair (3):
The essay is adequate, but may be somewhat disjointed or difficult to follow.
Poor (2):
The essay may be confusing or illogical.
Unsatisfactory (1):
The essay is confusing or illogical.
[Evidence]
Excellent (5):
The essay provides relevant and convincing evidence to support the arguments made, using credible sources and properly citing them.
Good (4):
The essay provides relevant and convincing evidence to support the arguments made, using credible sources and properly citing them.
Fair (3):
The essay provides relevant evidence, but may be insufficient or not fully convincing.
Poor (2):
The essay may provide irrelevant evidence or fail to cite sources properly.
Unsatisfactory (1):
The essay provides irrelevant evidence or fails to cite sources properly.
[Style]
Excellent (5):
The essay is written in a clear, concise, and engaging style that effectively communicates the author's ideas to the reader.
Good (4):
The essay is clear and concise, and effectively communicates the author's ideas.
Fair (3):
The essay is adequate, but may lack engagement or originality.
Poor (2):
The essay may be unclear or confusing.
Unsatisfactory (1):
The essay is unclear or confusing.
[Grammar]
Excellent (5):
The essay is free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and adheres to the conventions of academic writing.
Good (4):
The essay is strong, with only minor errors.
Fair (3):
The essay is adequate, but may contain several errors.
Poor (2):
The essay may contain numerous errors.
Unsatisfactory (1):
The essay contains numerous errors and significantly impairs the readability of the essay.
Prompt
<< Input the above text-based rubric >>
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Can you use the above rubric to analyze my essay provide in the next message
GPT Response
Sure, please provide me with your essay to analyze using the rubric.
Prompt
<< Input the essay >>
GPT Response
Sure, here's the analysis of your essay using the rubric provided:
| Criteria | Rating | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Content | Fair (3) | The essay presents some ideas related to becoming an engineer, but the content lacks depth and originality. It also fails to provide a clear thesis statement that is well supported by well-researched and insightful arguments. |
| Organization | Poor (2) | The essay is confusing and illogical. It lacks a clear structure with a proper introduction, body, and conclusion that effectively supports the thesis statement. The transitions between ideas are not good, making it difficult to follow. |
| Evidence | Unsatisfactory (1) | The essay fails to provide relevant and convincing evidence to support the arguments made. It also fails to use credible sources and properly cite them. |
| Style | Fair (3) | The essay is written in a somewhat clear and concise style, but it lacks engagement and originality. It fails to effectively communicate the author's ideas to the reader. |
| Grammar | Good (4) | The essay is mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. It adheres to the conventions of academic writing. |
Overall, your essay needs significant improvement in all criteria except for grammar. The content lacks depth and originality, the organization is confusing and illogical, the evidence is irrelevant and inadequately cited, and the style lacks engagement and originality.
Upload the rubric file in system in OpenAI / POE ChatGPT
The ChatGPT from OpenAI (.xlsx) / POE (.docx, .pdf) can now allow you upload data files in the system for the knowledge base of the chatbot:
OpenAI ChatGPT
This is currently a beta features in OpenAI ChatGPT with GPT-4 subscription only, to activate:
- Go into Settings
- Select Beta features
- Activate the Code interpreter features
You can see the upload function beside the promot of GPT-4 when you select the code interpreter function:
POE
The upload icon can see directly beside the POE ChatGPT interface.
When uploading the file, input the prompt asking ChatGPT to analyze the essay, which will be provided in the next message, similar to the above text-based rubric approach, just replacing the text based rubric with the upload file.