Manifesto: Determining Scores

Of Arithmetic and Black Lights:
How Table Leaders Determine a Portfolio's Score

Updated: 07/08/04

A portfolio's score is determined by two separate readers who each assign an independent score. If the two scores agree or are within one point of each other (4/5, 2/3, etc.), the table leaders add those scores to achieve the portfolio's score (9, 5, etc.). If those scores are not within one point of each other (3/5, 4/6, etc.), a third reader's score will be doubled to determine the portfolio's score.

Very experienced readers will act as table leaders. The table leaders use a black light to read the magic pen on the scoring guide and are responsible for penciling in the scores the first two readers have assigned and tallying the final score(s). If the scores do not agree, the table leaders enlist the help of an experienced third reader.

Please remember that you are not responsible for tallying the portfolio score; the table leaders perform that task for you.

Click here for a description of what a combined portfolio score means.