iRubric: Grading Criteria for 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 adequately but often displayed inconsistencies with their sentence structure and tenses.

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 with ease in proper sentence structure and tenses.

Student had inadequate vocabulary words to express his/her ideas properly, which hindered the students in responding. Had little to no tone or rhythm in speaking and no great use of non verbal communication such as hand use.

Student was able to use broad vocabulary words but was lacking, making him/her repetitive and cannot expand on his/her ideas. Used hand gestures but not always in correlation of speaking more out of struggle and nerves. However did use tone for questions and had adequate pace and stress in conversation.

Student utilised the words learned in class, in an accurate manner for the situation given. Used hand gestures and tone of voice effectively and appropriately as well as body language like posture to show confidence in his/her answer. Used key phrases well and some varity

Rich, precise and impressive usage of vocabulary words learned in and beyond of class. Held good use of non verbal gestures like coughing to interject and use of key phrases used stress and tone well and kept a good conversation pace and was appropriate in his/her use of communicative tools and phrases.

Student was lacking in background knowledge which hindered his/her responses to the conversation topics.

Student showed decent background knowledge of class material, and ability to use that within the group discussions

Student displayed well knowledge of class information and topics.

Student presented excellent background knowledge from class topics and was able to add more information in their response.