RATING SCALE TO ASSESS LISTENING COMPREHENSION.

NAME OF THE STUDENT: GRADE:

th

DATE:

TASK DESCRTIPTION: The student from an 8 grade in a public school must draw on a blank piece of paper a simple map listening to the teacher directions. The student must draw correctly the following places: where he/she is, a school, a hospital, a church and a train station, it will also include the use of the following language: straight ahead, to the right, to the left, between. THE AIM OF THE TASK: Students will be able to draw a simple map listening to the directions given by the teacher. The aim is to measure whether the student can listen, identify and recognize the language taught previously. SKILL: listening.

Not well (1pts) Organization. Clear identification of the places and directions given. Content. Written and draw correctly, following the directions given. Effect on reader. Requires no effort on reader

OK (2pts)

Quite well (3 pts)

Great (4pts)

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Poor 1 pts Written clearly Are able to understand how to get there from the directions given Poor

Fair 2 pts Fair

Good 3 pts Good

Use of street names ie; Obie Street, Field Street

Poor

Fair

Good

Use of directions ie: turn left, turn right

Poor

Fair

Good

Rubric Design

Description of class context: 3rd grade secondary school, Public school. Lesson aim: At the end of the lesson students will be able to write a letter to
a friend inviting him to a summer camp.

Skill to be assessed: Writing Task description: you are going to go to a summer camp and you are
allowed to invite a friend to go with you. Write a letter to a friend inviting him to go to the summer camp with you, include where the summer camp is, what the summer camp is about, when the summer camp is (the date) and the things or activities you could do there. Length Between 250-300 words. Authors: Lidia Escalona- Exequiel Gonzalez.

Student name:
CATEGORY Sentences & Paragraphs 4
Sentences and paragraphs are complete, wellconstructed and of varied structure.

2
Most sentences are complete and wellconstructed. Paragraphing needs some work. Ideas were somewhat organized, but were not very clear. It took more than one reading to figure out what the letter was about. The letter is written between 230-240 words.

1
Many sentence fragments or run-on sentences OR paragraphing needs lots of work. The letter seemed to be a collection of unrelated sentences. It was very difficult to figure out what the letter was about. The letter is written in less than 230 words.

Ideas

All sentences are complete and wellconstructed (no fragments, no runons). Paragraphing is generally done well. Ideas were expressed Ideas were expressed in a clear and in a pretty clear organized fashion. It manner, but the was easy to figure out organization could what the letter was have been better. about. The letter is written between 250-310 words. The letter is written between 240-250 words.

Length

Capitalization and Punctuation

Writer makes no Writer makes 1-2 Writer makes 3-4 Writer makes more errors in capitalization errors in capitalization errors in capitalization than 4 errors in and punctuation. and punctuation. and punctuation. capitalization and punctuation.

Format

Complies with all the requirements for a friendly letter.

Complies with almost all the requirements for a friendly letter.

Complies with several Complies with less of the requirements than 75% of the for a friendly letter. requirements for a friendly letter.

Content Accuracy

The letter contains relevant information and all the information required on the task and more.

The letter contains relevant information andat least 3 out of 4 piece of information required on the task Writer makes 1-3 errors in grammar and/or spelling.

Grammar & Spelling Writer makes no

errors in grammar or spelling.

The letter contains some relevant information and1-2 out of 4 piece of information required on the task. Writer makes 3-5 errors in grammar and/or spelling

The letter does not contain relevant information and the information required on the task. Writer makes more than 5 errors in grammar and/or spelling.

Adapted from rubistar.4teachers.org