Overview of Teacher Hand Scoring System

The Teacher Hand Scoring System (THSS) system allows authorized users to enter scores for item responses that require human scoring. Administrators and scorers can also assign test opportunities to be scored manually by another user.

After students complete California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress assessments in the Secure Browser, their responses to machine-scorable items are scored automatically, while their responses for hand-scorable items are sent to THSS. In order for a student’s test opportunity to complete the scoring process, scores or condition codes must be submitted for every hand-scorable item on that test.