Mr. Walker teaches ninth grade speech. He uses traditional testing to assess stu

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Question

Mr. Walker teaches ninth grade speech. He uses traditional testing to assess students' knowledge about various types of speeches and their purposes, but wants to use authentic assessment to evaluate students' performance when they make presentations. The upcoming speech assignment involves presenting a four-minute informative speech in which students cite three reputable sources to support their content. The speech needs to inform the audience about something in the environment that poses a risk to them and their friends and families. Describe in detail an appropriate process for creating a rubric for grading these speeches.

Explanation / Answer

Criteria

Pre-intermediate (0)

Intermediate (1)

Upper-intermediate (2)

Advanced (3)

Vocabulary

Uses simple words to convey personal information but struggles for words while speaking on less familiar topics.

Uses adequate words fairly to talks about familiar and unfamiliar topics but doesn’t use words in the right context.

Uses enough vocabulary resource flexibly to discuss different topics and shows some awareness style and collocation, with some inappropriate choices.

Uses vocabulary with full flexibility and precision in all topics and uses idiomatic language naturally and accurately.

Coherence

Speaks hesitantly but gives only simple responses and struggles to link simple sentences.

Speaks without hesitation on known topics by maintaining the flow of speech but uses repetition, self-correction and struggles when speaking on complex topics.

Speaks at length without noticeable effort or loss of coherence with few repetition and self-correction.

Speaks coherently by developing topics consistently and appropriately and presents it neatly.

Body Language

Doesn’t show confidence by avoiding proper eye contact and doesn’t show positive impression.

Shows slight positive impression and confidence but exhibits improper gesture and eye contact.

Shows moderate level of confidence and reasonable level of eye contact most of the time.

Shows proper gesture and maintains proper eye contact throughout.

Grammar

Doesn’t express ideas at all and the minimal response has full of grammatical errors in the sentences.

Expresses ideas and responds adequately but displays inconsistencies with sentence structure and tenses.

Expresses ideas and responds fairly well but makes mistakes with their tenses, however is able to correct them.

Expresses ideas with ease and responds in proper sentence structure and tenses.

Topic Development

Uses shorter and less complex sentences and there is a lot of repetition.

Uses complex sentence with mistakes and although there is no repetition, the content is not strong.

Uses simple and complex sentences reasonably in an acceptable manner and strong in the content.

Uses perfect sentences and the content is developed gradually with proper references.