Rubrics

For
Speaking
Assesment
Presented by : Giovanna Zúñiga F.
giovanna.zuniga@icpna.edu.pe
Aspects to consider when assesing speaking
 Type of activities to
assess speaking skills
Choose an ideal activity for your students according to their level.
 For beginners you could use discourse or presentations
 For intermediate students role-play and dialogues
 For advanced students think about debates.
INTENSIVE READING
 A read aloud task
ACTIVITY A
READING A SCRIPT DIALOGUE
WITH A CLASSMATE
ACTIVITY B
READING SENTENCES
CONTAINING MINIMAL PAIRS

ACTIVITY C
READING INFORMATION FROM A
SOURCE

 Sentence completion task

 Describe a picture
RESPONSIVE SPEAKING

 Question and answers

 Giving instructions and directions

 Paraphrasing
INTERACTIVE SPEAKING
Choose the one the fits your
class needs:

 Interview
 Role play
 Discussion
 Games

 Dialogue
 Debate
EXTENSIVE SPEAKING

 Discourse
It is a one way activity with the
objetive of delivering information.

 Diatribe
It aims to express emotions, browbeat
or inspire.

 Picture-cued story telling

Students describe a story based on series
of pictures that they previously saw.
What is a rubric?
A rubric is a scoring guide used to
evaluate performance, a product,
or a project in an objective
manner. It has three parts:
1) performance criteria;
2) rating scale; and
3) indicators.
Makes grading clear, quicker and RATING SCALE FOR
PERFORMANCE LEVELS
objective
4 3 2 1
CRITERIA THAT
DESCRIBE THE

CRITERION 1
PRODUCT

PERFORMANC
E LEVEL AND

INDICATORS
CRITERION

FOR EACH
CRITERION 2

CRITERION 3
Why are rubrics fantastic ?

 We can grade students performance objectively

 They make grading clear, quick and more objective
 They keep us honest in our grading
 They improve students and projects learning and therefore increase learning
 We make available rubrics before hand, so they can undertand how they will be evaluated
 We get better quality work
 Students will know what you want in advanced and how they performance will be graded
 Students will see right away how they lost points

 We can make them of find them on line…

Let´s create a
rubric!
THINK
ABOUT THE
WORLD´S
BEST
"ALFAJOR"
Step 1
Think about the qualities
and characteristics of the
world´s best alfajores:
 Amount of milk caramel
Texture
Color
Taste
Flavor
Step 2
Choose one of the
characteristics , let´s use
taste as an example.
In our evalution will choose
your levels of quality:
Delicious
Good
Needs improvement
Poor
Step 3
Decide what descriptors we will
choose for the four levels of
quality. We will have a range of
textures :
Chewy
Chewy on the middle crisp on
the edges
50% undercooked
Texture like a rock!
And then repeat the process for
each of the criteria
This is how your rubric will look like:
Needs
CRITERIA Delicious Good Poor
Improvement
20% OF
1. AMOUNT OF 100% OF CARAMEL 75% OF CARAMEL 50% OF CARAMEL
CARAMEL
MILK CARAMEL COVERAGE COVERAGE COVERAGE
COVERAGE

Weight (points) 10 8 6 2

CHEWY ON THE MIDDLE 50% TEXTURE LIKE A

2. TEXTURE CHEWY AND CRISP ON THE EDGES UNDERCOOKED ROCK !

Weight (points) 10 8 6 2

LIGHT FROM BEING DARK FROM

3. COLOR GOLDEN BROWN BURNED
RAW OVERCOOKING

Weight (points) 10 8 6 2

HOME BAKED BLUND , HARD

4. TASTE STORE BOUGHT TASTE TASTELESS
TASTE OR CHALKY

Weight (points) 10 8 6 2

RICH IN FLAVOR,
MEDIUM FAT LOW FAT NON FAT
5. RICHNESS ENOUGH FAT
CONTENT CONTENT CONTENTS
FLAVOR

Weight (points) 10 8 6 2
GRADE IN POINTS 50 40 30 10
 CRITERIA

It´s time to make our

own rubric Weight (points)

Step 1 : Choose an activity Weight (points)

Could be : dialogue, discourse, role
play etc.

Step 2 : Choose rating scale

Outstanding, good, needs Weight (points)

improvement, por or any other

Step 3 : Choose the criterion and their

weights (score) Weight (points)

Criteria could be fluency , accuuracy ,

vocabulary , pronunciation etc.

Weight (points)

GRADE IN POINTS
Any questions or comments

Please, contact me :

giovanna.zuniga@icpna.edu.pe