Why your score may change throughout a conversation
Every new turn adds to the session, so the score updates as you go.
Your session ROIP reflects the whole conversation so far. Each new turn is graded and added to it, so it can raise or lower it:
- A precise correction or a well-structured next step raises it.
- Several vague follow-ups, like “try again,” lower it.
- A turn's own grade comes from that prompt and the turns before it, so later turns don't change it. The exception: if later turns show the session is a different kind of task than it first looked, its turns are graded again for that type.
If you come back to a conversation and add a turn, the whole session is graded again. Occasionally Worsley improves how scores are calculated. Each score records which version of the scoring rules produced it, so old and new scores are never mixed silently.