Writing

Core Competency

PDCCC vs. VCCS

2003 Degree Graduates

	Total Papers	Mean Score	Median Score
VCCS	778	3.94	4.00
PDCCC Community College	19*	4.63	4.50

Note: This number may be different from the number of papers your college submitted to the System Office for two reasons: (1) If your college submitted more than a 5% sample of papers, System Office staff took a random sample of those papers, reducing the number to 5%. (2) Sixteen papers were selected by the consultant to serve as anchor papers for the training session. Because these papers had been discussed in a group session by the evaluators, they were not included in the final scoring process.