I've been working on a new take on an assessment and am in need of some feedback. Please comment, DM me on Twitter or send me an email at [email protected]. If for some reason my pictures aren't visible here's a link to the assessment I'm talking about. A few weeks ago I was proctoring the AAPPL test for our school's Seal of Biliteracy and was able to overhear some of the speaking sections of the test. As I expected there were parts where they had to narrate in the past/present/future, compare and describe and answer questions. However, I noticed there was one section that stood out as unique and interested me the most. On the AAPPL they prompt students to ask questions about a given topic. All they have to do is ask questions for the minute or however long they have. Sounds simple right...as you may know from teaching intermediates that is not as easy as it sounds. Intermediates are expected to create with the language, handle simple interactions as well as ask and answer simple questions. That last one is key to me because I know kids can answer questions but asking them sometimes turns out to be a much tougher task. Combining this observation with what I learned during my MOPI training I began thinking of a new kind of assessment in class (well an activity that would lead to an assessment). What if I gave students a role/situation and asked them to ask as many questions as possible in a minute and a half to two minutes? What would this look like? Here's what I drafted. Essentially, students would be asking questions related to a topic we are studying in class. In this situation we will be studying healthy living so I wanted them to ask questions about healthy living and healthy habits. My goal is to do this as many times as possible this year and use it completely next year when teaching this course. I then started to think about the rubric and the kind of feedback that kids needed to improve. I thought of two categories for my rubric including content and accuracy. Content would be looking at the kinds of questions that students asked while accuracy was looking at how well the questions were constructed. I would not be looking for a specific grammar point because they are intermediate mids and despite working with different tenses in class, I wouldn't expect that to show up on this kind of assessment (although it would be welcomed for sure!) Here's the rubric and Glow and Grow feedback I thought of. This is such a rough draft and I'd love to hear any feedback you have on how I can improve it. Thanks in advance!
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