Fairfax County Public Schools - PALS: Performance Assessment for Language Students

DRAFT

Upper Level Presentational Speaking Tasks - Analytic Rubric

 
Important! To grade the student's performance, please see Scoring the Upper Level Speaking Task.
 
Task Completion

1 --

Minimal completion of the task; content is frequently undeveloped and/or somewhat repetitive.

2 --

Partial completion of the task; content is somewhat adequate and mostly appropriate; basic ideas expressed but very little elaboration or detail.

3 --

Completion of the task; content is appropriate; ideas adequately developed with some elaboration and detail.

4 --

Superior completion of the task; content is rich; ideas developed with elaboration and detail.

 
Comprehensibility of Message

1 --

Content barely comprehensible, requiring frequent interpretation; pronunciation may frequently interfere with communication.

2 --

Content mostly comprehensible, requiring interpretation; pronunciation may occasionally interfere with communication.

3 --

Content comprehensible, requiring minimal interpretation; pronunciation does not interfere with communication.

4 --

Content readily comprehensible, requiring no interpretation; pronunciation enhances communication.

 
Level of Discourse

1 --

Use of complete sentences, some repetitive; few cohesive devices.

2 --

Emerging variety of complete sentences; some cohesive devices.

3 --

Variety of complete sentences and of cohesive devices.

4 --

Variety of complete sentences and of cohesive devices; emerging paragraph-length discourse.

 
Fluency

1 --

Speech halting and uneven with long pauses or incomplete thoughts; little sustained speech.

2 --

Speech choppy and/or slow with frequent pauses; few or no incomplete thoughts; some sustained speech.

3 --

Speech sustained most of the time; some hesitation but manages to continue and complete thoughts.

4 --

Speech sustained throughout with few pauses or stumbling.

 
Vocabulary

1 --

Inadequate and/or inaccurate use of vocabulary

2 --

Limited range of vocabulary; use sometimes inaccurate and/or inappropriate.

3 --

Varied range of vocabulary; use generally accurate and appropriate; a few idiomatic expressions.

4 --

Wide range of vocabulary; use generally accurate and appropriate, including some idiomatic expressions.

 
Language Control

1 --

Emerging use of basic language structures.

2 --

Emerging control of basic language structures.

3 --

Control of basic language structures.

4 --

Control of basic language structures with occasional use of advanced language structures.

Important! To grade the student's performance, please see Scoring the Upper Level Speaking Task.

 

Last update: September 2000

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