Table 3.

Holistic rubric for assessing an applicant profile

Dimension	% of evidence in category
Criteria
	* A profile containing >14.29% evidence in any category will have 1 point (in the 5 point scale rubric). If the category is negative it will have a minus 1 point.
	* A profile containing between 10% - 14.28% evidence in any category will have partial points according to the following description:
	% Evidence in Category	Scale Points
	14.00 – 14.49	.9
	13.5 – 13.99	.8
	13.00 – 13.49	.7
	12.5 – 12.99	.6
	12.00 – 12.49	.5
	11.5 – 11.99	.4
	11.00 – 11.49	.3
	10.5 – 10.99	.2
	10.00 – 10.49	.1
Benchmarks:	A profile will score 1 if it contains >14.29% evidence in any category or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.
	A profile will score 2 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 2 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.
	A profile will score 3 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 3 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.
	A profile will score 4 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 4 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.
	A profile will score 5 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 5 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.

Note 1: The rubric was built according to a theoretical profile containing the 7 positive attributes that were elicited from the data. 100%: 7 (categories) =14.29.

Note 2: The result of the analysis is a list of themes classified in constructs. Then the numbers and the percentages of the themes on every construct are calculated and demonstrated by a pie. This constitutes an applicant profile.

Note 3: The words written in boldface letters are subtitles and score numbers.

Note 4: “*” is a symbol for a scoring criterion.