Rubric for oral presentation:

World Language Department

Jefferson Township Public Schools

Rubric—Presentation

Skill / Accomplished / Proficient / Intermediate / Beginner
Structure / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Timing and Spacing / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Audibility / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Accomplished—speaker is well-prepared and easily able to engage the listener through a clear structure, good timing and pacing, and clear audibility.

Proficient—speaker is well prepared with a structure having only minor digressions and/or difficulties, falters occasionally in timing and pacing and is sufficiently audible.

Intermediate—speaker’s structure is adequate having some digressions and/or difficulties, timing and pacing falters or shows considerable hesitation; audience has difficulty with audibility.

Beginner—speaker’s structure shows lack of organization and is difficult to follow, timing and pacing are lacking or shows frequent hesitation; audience has difficulty understanding the speaker.

Rubric—Vocabulary

Skill / Accomplished / Proficient / Intermediate / Beginner
Language / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Colloquialisms / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Idiomatic Expressions / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Accomplished—speaker uses specific, clear and descriptive language that incorporates colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions with ease and creativity.

Proficient—speaker uses specific, clear and descriptive language for the most part and incorporates colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions with only minor mistakes.

Intermediate—speaker uses clear but predictable language that only incorporates colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions with some difficulty.

Beginner—speaker uses only basic, disjointed language and has trouble with colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions.

Rubric—Grammar and syntax

Skill / Accomplished / Proficient / Intermediate / Beginner
Sentence Structure / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Grammar / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Word Order / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Accomplished—speaker uses complex sentence structure with few to no grammatical mistakes

Proficient—speaker uses less complex but correct sentence structure with minor mistakes in grammar and word order.

Intermediate—speaker uses basic yet correct sentence structure with some difficulties in grammar usage and word order.

Beginner—speaker uses only basic and sometimes incorrect sentence structure and has frequent difficulties with grammar usage and word order.

Rubric for Written Component:

World Language Department

Jefferson Township Public Schools

Rubric—Product

Skill / Accomplished / Proficient / Intermediate / Beginner
Clarity / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Amount of Communication / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Quality of Communication / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Fluency / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Accomplished—Clarity: Can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.

Amount of Communication: Detailed narration and description; ability to support opinions and to develop

arguments in hypothetical situations.

Quality of Communication: Ability to compensate for an imperfect grasp of forms with confident use of communicative strategies such as paraphrasing and circumlocution.

Fluency: Remarkable fluency and ease of speech, although inadequacies may occasionally appear.

Proficient—Clarity: Can be understood without difficulty by native speakers although intelligibility may at times fail.

Amount of Communication: Writing takes place at paragraph length with adequate connections, yet the

development of a theme may be lacking in details and limited to generalities; limited production in

hypothetical situations.

Quality of Communication: Able to express concrete situations; hypothetical statements may be written

with caution yet with accuracy; few errors of agreement, tense, word order, articles, pronouns, prepositions.

Fluency: Sentences linked together smoothly; yet does not necessarily show facility in analytical, abstract,

hypothetical, argumentative products.

Intermediate—Clarity: Can be understood by native speakers not accustomed to non-native speakers.

Amount of Communication: Emergence of a connected discourse delivered at paragraph length; can

usually express adequately when narrating and describing; amount of communication is less substantial in

analytical and abstract situations

Quality of Communication: Difficulty controlling past, present, and future tenses as well as their

respective formations; several errors of agreement, tense, word order, articles, pronouns, prepositions;

however, linguistic inaccuracy does not interfere with communicative performance (the student’s ability to

get a message across).

Fluency:Limited vocabulary and awkward sentence structure.

Beginner—Clarity:Misunderstandings frequently arise due to strong interference from native language but can be

overcome by clarifications when communicating with sympathetic interlocutors.

Amount of Communication: Language production takes place one sentence at a time.

Quality of Communication:Some language accuracy takes place in basic structures and vocabulary; Can

create with learned elements of language and make up sentences within a limited range of situations and

contexts.

Fluency:Writing is characterized by obvious struggles with appropriate language forms.

Rubric—Vocabulary

Skill / Accomplished / Proficient / Intermediate / Beginner
Language / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Colloquialisms / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Idiomatic Expressions / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Accomplished—writer uses specific, clear and descriptive language that incorporates colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions with ease and creativity.

Proficient—writer uses specific, clear and descriptive language for the most part and incorporates colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions with only minor mistakes.

Intermediate—writer uses clear but predictable language that only incorporates colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions with some difficulty.

Beginner—writer uses only basic, disjointed language and has trouble with colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions.

Rubric—Grammar and syntax

Skill / Accomplished / Proficient / Intermediate / Beginner
Sentence Structure / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Grammar / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Word Order / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Accomplished—writer uses complex sentence structure with few to no grammatical mistakes

Proficient—writer uses less complex but correct sentence structure with minor mistakes in grammar and word order.

Intermediate—writer uses basic yet correct sentence structure with some difficulties in grammar usage and word order.

Beginner—writer uses only basic and sometimes incorrect sentence structure and has frequent difficulties with grammar usage and word order.

Rubric for self and peer evaluation:

Peer evaluation / Peers feel that student had an equal part in preparing and presenting information.
10 9 / Peers feel that student could have done a little more in either preparing or presenting information.
8 7 6 / Peers feel that student did very little work in either preparing or presenting information.
5 4 3 2 1 0
Self evaluation / Student feels that he or she had an equal part in preparing and presenting the information.
10 9 / Student feels that he or she could have done more in either preparing or presenting the information.
8 7 6 / Student feels he or she did very little work in either preparing or presenting the information.
5 4 3 2 1 0
Comments:

PEER EVALUATION

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THIS DOCUMENT

Name of student you are evaluating:
Strongly agree / Agree / Somewhat agree / Disagree
Student had an equal part in preparing this presentation / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Student had an equal part in presenting the information / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Student demonstrated confidence and knowledge in the material presented / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Student was able to be heard clearly / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Student addressed the class questions clearly and concisely / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Comments:

SELF-EVALUATION

Your name
Strongly agree / Agree / Somewhat agree / Disagree
You had an equal part in preparing this presentation / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
You had an equal part in presenting the information / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
You demonstrated confidence and knowledge in the material presented / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
You were able to be heard clearly / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
You addressed the class questions clearly and concisely / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Comments:

Legend:

4=21-25

3=17-20

2=13-16

1=12 and below