assessment Rubric for a task

1. Assessment outline
Context information:
6th grade, 37 students from a public school, 2 hours per week, according to standards their English level is A2.
Achievement standards:
Describe the basic characteristics of people, things, and places found in his/her school, city or community using short phrases and sentences.
Purpose:
● Inform reporting.
● To gain insights about strengths and weaknesses of students’ language learning process.
● To gather information for improving instruction.
Stage in the teaching sequence:
End of the term.
Task description:
The task consists on record a video in which each student is going to describe the place he/she likes the most in the city (Medellín), using the
knowledge learned during the term.
● Each student is going to choose one place in the city, in a piece of paper she/he is going to write down his/her name and the place to
be described.
● The teacher is going to share the rubric to accomplish this task.
● Each student has one week to record the video.
● The video must be 2 or 3 minutes maximum.
● Students must go to the chosen place to record the video (showing the place while they describe it).
● Next week the teacher is going to play each video in the classroom and check it based on the rubric.
Description of procedures to interpret and report results:

2. ● The teacher is going to use a rubric to check the quality of language produced by students while watching the video in the class.
● The teacher is going to give the rubric to each student with the corresponding score and comments in order to provide feedback.
● After the all presentations, the teacher is going to provide a general feedback to all the class.
Nota: 5.0

3. Criteria Excellent
4.1-5.0
Adequate
3.0-4.0
Insufficient
0.0-2.9
score
Morphology. Accurate use of the simple
sentence structures are
presented.
Most of the utterances
regarding the simple sentence
structures are well presented.
Almost all the utterances
regarding the simple sentence
structures present mistakes.
Vocabulary. There is a good use of the
vocabulary taught in class for
describing the place.
Some words taught in class are
used for describing the place.
Poor use of the vocabulary
taught in class for describing
the place.
Fluency
(Talking pace).
Speech delivered spontaneously
and at a regular speed.
Speech presents some halts
and hesitation that interrupts
in some moments the normal
flow of ideas.
Speech broken by frequent
halts and hesitation that
affected communication.
Register. Correct word choice when
describing a place according to
the audience.
Some mistakes regarding the
selection of vocabulary when
describing a place regarding to
the audience
Serious errors regarding the
words selection when
describing a place according to
the audience.
Syntax. Words are placed correctly in the
sentences.
Some of the sentences present
incorrect word order.
Almost all the words are placed
incorrectly.
Pronunciation. Comprehension is enhanced by a
clearpronunciation.
There are some pronunciation
mistakes but does not affect
the comprehension.
Incorrect pronunciation affects
comprehension.

4. Quality of the video. The quality of the images and the
audio do not affect the
comprehension of the message.
The quality of the images and
the audio do not allow a
complete comprehension of
the message.
The quality of the images and
the audio affect the
comprehension of the
message.
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Final score.