Assessing America's Writing - Results

The introduction of the AI judging for schools taking part in Assessing America's Writing means that schools can access new reports for their students and their teachers. Below we provide a summary of the reports and the results that you can access.

AAW results on a new scale

From the 2025-2026 school year, we have placed the AAW results on a new score scale. This is to align the scores from our American assessment with those of the UK and Australia. The scores scale will now go from roughly 350 up to 750. We will be using this new scale moving forward from the Fall tasks to the Winter and Spring tasks. All the grades, from 1 to 12, will be on the same scale so that you can make comparisons between grades.

This new scale will be divided into six different categories:

These categories will be applied for these score ranges in all our AAW assessments so that you can see student progression through the categories as they progress through the year and through grades.

To make these categories more meaningful, we have generated descriptions of these categories in terms of characteristics of students' writing. These descriptions have been generated using AI and sampling the actual writing done by students in a given assessment. Description documents have been generated separately for Grades 1 to 2, 3 to 6, and 7 to 12. You can access these by going to the Download National assessment documents section of your AAW task.

In addition to the new scale and categories, we are also now able to provide feedback reports targeted at teachers and students. The help article about accessing these reports is available here.

Updated on: 03/11/2025