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Durable Skills evaluators

Introducing Durable Skills evaluators

Released Durable Skills evaluators to rate student work against a construct’s indicators, with evidence and reasoning for every judgment:


Critical Thinking	Rates a student’s source-based argumentative essay for critical thinking across 5 rubric indicators

Student-Facing Text evaluatorsFeedback evaluators

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator


Organizational Structure	Assesses how demanding a text’s organizational structure is for students at a given grade level

Added Feedback evaluators


Tone Appropriateness	Assesses whether teacher feedback strikes a tone that is appropriate and constructive for the student
Withholding Answers	Assesses whether teacher feedback guides the student toward a revision without doing the cognitive work for them

Academic Standards evaluators

Introducing Academic Standards evaluators

Released Academic Standards evaluators to measure how aligned educational content is to U.S. academic standards:


Math Standards Alignment	Checks a math question against an academic standard’s corresponding learning components

Feedback evaluatorsStudent-Facing Text evaluators

Introducing Feedback evaluators

Released Feedback evaluators to assess the quality of AI-generated or teacher feedback:


Strength Acknowledgement	Assesses whether feedback names something specific and authentic the student did well, distinct from generic or unanchored praise
Revision Actionability	Assesses whether feedback gives a clear, usable next step the student can act on without additional clarification
Student Response Specificity	Assesses whether feedback is clearly based on the student’s specific response
Revision Accuracy	Assesses whether feedback correctly identifies whether the student needed to revise
Revision Manageability	Assesses whether the amount of feedback is manageable for the student

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator


Reference Knowledge Demands	Assesses what a text assumes you’ve already encountered and then builds on to create meaning

SDKPythonTypeScript

Introducing the Python SDK

Released a Python SDK ↗ with support for the following Student-Facing Text evaluators:

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Added --bypass-row-limit option for the batch evaluator.

Student-Facing Text evaluatorsSDKTypeScript

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator


Purpose Clarity	Analyzes how clearly a text communicates its central purpose

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Purpose Clarity

Student-Facing Text evaluatorsSDKTypeScript

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator


Meaning Directness	Analyzes whether language is literal and explicit or relies on figurative, abstract, or implied meaning that requires interpretation

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

SDKTypeScriptLearning Commons PlatformStudent-Facing Text evaluators

Introducing the TypeScript SDK

Released a TypeScript SDK ↗ with support for the following Student-Facing Text evaluators:

Introducing the Evaluators playground

Released the Evaluators playground ↗, an interactive environment for testing evaluators without setup or integration

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator


Background Knowledge Demands	Identifies key concepts in a text and evaluates background knowledge demands by grade level

Literacy evaluators

Expanded Vocabulary Complexity support

Expanded support for Vocabulary Complexity to include grades 5–12

Student-Facing Text evaluators

Expanded Sentence Structure support

Expanded support for Sentence Structure to include grades 5–12

Student-Facing Text evaluators

Introducing Student-Facing Text evaluators

Released Student-Facing Text evaluators:


Grade Level Appropriateness	Determines whether AI-generated text is suitable for a grade band and suggests scaffolding that can support instruction of the text
Vocabulary Complexity	Measures how challenging vocabulary in informational texts may be for students in grades 3–4
Sentence Structure	Assesses the complexity of sentence structure in informational texts for grades 3–4

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Introducing Durable Skills evaluators

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Added Feedback evaluators

Introducing Academic Standards evaluators

Introducing Feedback evaluators

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Introducing the Python SDK

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Introducing the TypeScript SDK

Introducing the Evaluators playground

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Expanded Vocabulary Complexity support

Expanded Sentence Structure support

Introducing Student-Facing Text evaluators

Support

​Introducing Durable Skills evaluators

​Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

​Added Feedback evaluators

​Introducing Academic Standards evaluators

​Introducing Feedback evaluators

​Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

​Introducing the Python SDK

​Expanded TypeScript SDK support

​Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

​Expanded TypeScript SDK support

​Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

​Expanded TypeScript SDK support

​Introducing the TypeScript SDK

​Introducing the Evaluators playground

​Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

​Expanded Vocabulary Complexity support

​Expanded Sentence Structure support

​Introducing Student-Facing Text evaluators

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Support

Introducing Durable Skills evaluators

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Added Feedback evaluators

Introducing Academic Standards evaluators

Introducing Feedback evaluators

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Introducing the Python SDK

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Expanded TypeScript SDK support

Introducing the TypeScript SDK

Introducing the Evaluators playground

Added Student-Facing Text evaluator

Expanded Vocabulary Complexity support

Expanded Sentence Structure support

Introducing Student-Facing Text evaluators

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