Credit | Score categories | Type of response |
No credit | 0 | Wrong or vague health claim, irrelevant or blank response. |
Partial credit | 1 | Acceptable account of the health claim. |
2 | Acceptable account of the health claim and requests relating to one scientific research category (eg, methods). | |
3 | Acceptable account of the health claim and requests relating to two unique scientific research categories (eg, methods and data). | |
Full credit | 4* | Acceptable account of the health claim and requests relating to three or more unique scientific research categories (eg, methods, data and theory/agent). |
*No student made more than three unique requests for scientific information. Accordingly, full credit on the item was set to 4 score points.