Here, “variance” is a measure of how far a set of scores are from the average (mean) score of all the scores for a particular component’s dimension (e.g. rationale, course level SLOs, etc). It does not show how multiple scorers’ scores on any particular proposal vary. How this information might be useful to the USAC is in thinking about 1) how well (or poorly) incoming proposals provide the requested information (assuming that a score of 4 means the proposal was very good at providing the requested information) and 2) how validly and perhaps reliably scorers are able to apply the rubric when scoring. A high variance might indicate that a review of the language of the proposal form and/or some scorer norming on scoring those proposals might be in order. COLOR CODES Two columns are color‐coded to help visualize trends. All components in a single document are color‐
coded the same cell color and all Dimensions have color‐coded text with the same color being used for each dimension.