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Text Complexity: Qualitative Measures Rubric INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Text Title___________________________________________ Exceedingly Complex Very Complex Text Author_____________________________________ Moderately Complex Slightly Complex
o Organization: Connections between an extensive range of ideas, processes or events are
o Organization: Connections between an expanded range ideas, processes or events are often implicit or subtle; organization may contain multiple pathways or exhibit some discipline-specific traits
o Organization: Connections between some ideas or events are implicit or subtle; organization is evident and generally sequential or chronological
o Organization: Connections between ideas, processes or events are explicit and clear; organization of text is chronological, sequential or easy to predict
TEXT STRUCTURE
deep, intricate and often ambiguous; organization is intricate or discipline-specific
o Text Features: If used, help the o Text Features: If used, enhance
the readers understanding of content reader navigate and understand content but are not essential to understanding content.
o Text Features: If used, are
essential in understanding content
o Text Features: If used, directly
enhance the readers understanding of content
o Use of Graphics: If used, intricate,
extensive graphics, tables, charts, etc., are extensive are integral to making meaning of the text; may provide information not otherwise conveyed in the text
o Use of Graphics: If used, graphic, o Use of Graphics: If used, graphics,
tables, charts, etc. support or are integral to understanding the text pictures, tables, and charts, etc. are mostly supplementary to understanding the text
o Use of Graphics: If used, graphic,
pictures, tables, and charts, etc. are simple and unnecessary to understanding the text but they may support and assist readers in understanding the written text
contains some abstract, ironic, and/or figurative language
o Conventionality: Largely explicit
and easy to understand with some occasions for more complex meaning
o Conventionality: Explicit, literal,
straightforward, easy to understand
LANGUAGE FEATURES
language
o Vocabulary: Complex, generally
unfamiliar, archaic, subjectspecific, or overly academic language; may be ambiguous or purposefully misleading
o Vocabulary: Fairly complex
language that is sometimes unfamiliar, archaic, subjectspecific, or overly academic
o Vocabulary: Mostly contemporary, familiar, conversational; rarely overly academic
o Vocabulary: Contemporary, familiar, conversational language
o Sentence Structure: Many
complex sentences with several
o Sentence Structure: Mainly simple o Sentence Structure: Primarily
simple and compound sentences, with some complex constructions sentences
o Sentence Structure: Mainly
complex sentences with several
subordinate phrases or clauses and transition words
subordinate clauses or phrases and transition words; sentences often contains multiple concepts
PURPOSE
o Purpose: elements
Subtle and intricate,
o Purpose: concrete
Implicit or subtle but
Purpose: Implied but easy to identify based upon context or source
o Purpose:
Explicitly stated, clear,
difficult to determine; includes many theoretical or abstract
fairly easy to infer; more theoretical or abstract than
concrete, narrowly focused
o Subject Matter Knowledge: Relies
KNOWLEDGE DEMANDS on extensive levels of disciplinespecific or theoretical knowledge; includes a range of challenging abstract concepts
o Subject Matter Knowledge: Relies o Subject Matter Knowledge: Relies o Subject Matter Knowledge: Relies on moderate levels of disciplinespecific or theoretical knowledge; includes a mix of recognizable ideas and challenging abstract concepts on common practical knowledge and some discipline-specific content knowledge; includes a mix of simple and more complicated, abstract ideas on everyday, practical knowledge; includes simple, concrete ideas
o Intertextuality: Many references or o Intertextuality: Some references or o Intertextuality: Few references or
allusions to other texts or outside ideas, theories, etc. allusions to other texts or outside ideas, theories, etc. allusions to other texts or outside ideas, theories, etc.
o Intertextuality: No references or allusions to other texts, or outside ideas, theories, etc.
