Examining consistency among different rubrics for assessing writing

Language Testing in Asia

Table 6 Total variance explained

Component	Initial Eigenvalues			Extraction sums of squared loadings			Rotation sums of squared loadings
Component	Total	% of Variance	Cumulative %	Total	% of Variance	Cumulative %	Total	% of Variance	Cumulative %
1	5.72	33.69	33.69	5.72	33.69	33.69	2.80	16.47	16.47
2	1.73	10.22	43.91	1.73	10.22	43.91	2.76	16.24	32.72
3	1.48	8.72	52.64	1.48	8.72	52.64	2.64	15.55	48.27
4	1.18	6.98	59.62	1.18	6.98	59.62	1.93	11.35	59.62
5	1.10	6.47	66.10
6	.90	5.32	71.43
7	.83	4.88	76.31
8	.68	4.03	80.35
9	.61	3.62	83.97
10	.51	3.02	86.99
11	.43	2.55	89.55
12	.38	2.25	91.81
13	.36	2.14	93.95
14	.33	1.94	95.89
15	.26	1.57	97.47
16	.21	1.28	98.75
17	.21	1.24	100.00