Appendix B: About Condition Codes

Table 15: Condition Codes Available in Centralized Reporting
Source of Code Condition Code Description
Human

Blank

The student did not enter a response.

Human

Insufficient Text

The student has not provided a meaningful response. Some examples:

  • Random keystrokes
  • Undecipherable text
  • "I hate this test"
  • “I don’t know”, “IDK”
  • “I don’t care”
  • "I like pizza!" (in response to a reading passage about helicopters)
  • Response consisting entirely of profanity

For ELA Full Writes, use the "Insufficient Text" code for responses described above and also if

  • The student's original work is insufficient to make a determination whether he or she is able to organize, cite evidence/elaborate, and use conventions as defined in the rubrics.
  • The response is too brief to make a determination regarding whether it is on purpose or on topic.
Human

Non-Scorable Language

  • ELA/literacy: Language other than English
  • Mathematics: Language other than English or Spanish
Human

Off Topic

For ELA Full Writes only:

  • A writing sample will be judged off topic when the response is unrelated to the task or the sources or shows no evidence that the student has read the task or the sources (especially for informational/explanatory and opinion/argumentative).
  • Off-topic responses are generally substantial responses.
Human

Off Purpose

For ELA Full Writes only:

  • A writing sample will be judged off purpose when the student has clearly not written to the purpose designated in the task.
  • An off-purpose response addresses the topic of the task but not the purpose of the task.
  • Note: Students may use narrative techniques in an explanatory essay or use argumentative/persuasive techniques to explain, for example, and still be on purpose.
  • Off-purpose responses are generally developed responses (essays, poems, etc.) clearly not written to the designated purpose.
Machine

Blank

The student did not enter a response.

Machine Insufficient Text (Duplicated Text) The response contains a significant amount of text repeated over and over.
Machine Insufficient Text (Too Few Words) The response contains too few words to be considered a valid attempt.
Machine Insufficient Text (Copied Text from the Prompt) The response is largely composed of text copied from the prompt.
Machine Insufficient Text (Refused to Answer) The response is a refusal to respond, in a form such as “idk” or “I don’t know.”
Machine

Non-Specific

This condition code is assigned to machine-scored responses when the Test Delivery System (TDS) identifies that the response requires a condition code but cannot determine which specific condition code it requires.

Machine Non-Scorable Language (Spanish Response) The response is in Spanish.
Machine Non-Scorable Language (Uninterpretable Language) The response is in a language other than English or Spanish.