Recently, a grader transcribed the following PA/phonics recording in this way:

Since the student said “peepur” without a pause in between “pee” and “pur,” the utterance should be treated as one nonsense word. This is how we regraded this recording:

Summary: For PA/phonics recordings, pay close attention to whether there is space in the audio in between utterances. If there is a space between words in your transcript, this should be matched by a corresponding space/pause in the audio.

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