iRubric: English Speaking Test rubric

Student was difficult to understand and had a hard time communicating their ideas and responses because of grammar mistakes.

Student was able to express their ideas and responses fairly well but makes mistakes with their tenses, however is able to correct themselves.

Student was able to express their ideas and responses adequately but often displayed inconsistencies with their sentence structure and tenses.

Student was able to express their ideas and responses with ease in proper sentence structure and tenses.

Speech is very slow, stumbling, nervous, and uncertain with response, except for short or memorized expressions. Difficult for a listener to understand

Speech is mostly smooth but with some hesitation and unevenness caused primarily by rephrasing and groping for words.

Speech is slow and often hesitant and irregular. Sentences may be left uncompleted, but the student is able to continue.

Speech is effortless and smooth with speed that comes close to that of a native speaker.

Student had inadequate vocabulary words to express his/her ideas properly, which hindered the students in responding.

Student utilized the words learned in class, in an accurate manner for the situation given.

Student was able to use broad vocabulary words but was lacking, making him/her repetitive and cannot expand on his/her ideas.

Rich, precise and impressive usage of vocabulary words learned in and beyond of class.

Student had difficulty understanding the questions and topics that were being discussed.
(Student was lacking in background knowledge which hindered his/her responses to the questions regarding class materials.)

Student was able to comprehend and respond to most of the questions and topics that were being discussed.
(Student displayed well knowledge of class information and topics.)

Student fairly grasped some of the questions and topics that were being discussed.
(Student showed decent background knowledge of class material, making his/her responses incomplete.)

Student was able to comprehend and respond to all of the questions and the topics that were being discussed with ease.
(Student presented excellent background knowledge from class topics and was able to add more information in their response.)

Student had inadequate vocabulary words to express his/her ideas properly, which hindered the students in responding.

Student utilized the words learned in class, in an accurate manner for the situation given.

Student was able to use broad vocabulary words but was lacking, making him/her repetitive and cannot expand on his/her ideas.

Rich, precise and impressive usage of vocabulary words learned in and beyond of class.

Speech is very slow, stumbling, nervous, and uncertain with response, except for short or memorized expressions. Difficult for a listener to understand

Speech is mostly smooth but with some hesitation and unevenness caused primarily by rephrasing and groping for words.

Speech is slow and often hesitant and irregular. Sentences may be left uncompleted, but the student is able to continue.

Speech is effortless and smooth with speed that comes close to that of a native speaker.

1-0 word(s) correct

4-2 words correct

7-5 words correct

10-8 words correct