Organizational Structure

Evaluator last updated August 27, 2026.

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Overview

The Organizational Structure evaluator assesses the structural complexity of an informational text — whether its ideas are arranged in a clear, predictable sequence with explicit connections, or woven into an intricate structure that asks the reader to infer how the pieces relate. Two texts can share the same vocabulary, sentence length, and grade-level reading score, yet place very different demands on a reader depending on how they’re organized. The Organizational Structure evaluator surfaces this dimension directly, so developers can optimize prompts, match texts to instructional goals, and maintain quality at scale. The evaluator works in 2 steps:

1. Identify structure – Detects the organizational pattern(s) a text uses to arrange its ideas and how explicitly it signals the connections between them

   Chronological	Events presented in time order
   Sequential	Steps or stages presented in order
   Cause-and-effect	One or more causes linked to outcomes
   Compare-and-contrast	Similarities and differences between two or more things
   Problem-solution	A problem framed and addressed
   Discipline-specific / braided	Multiple patterns operating at once (e.g., the problem–method–results arc common in science writing)

2. Evaluate structural demand – Weighs those structural demands against what students at the target grade are expected to navigate independently

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