SYNCHRONOUS SESSION RUBRIC

Rubrics to mark students’ performance in each synch session

Performance level →
Needs help Needs some help In progress Good Very good
Criteria ↓
Task achievement, oral participation,
preparation for the class, comprehension and 1 2 3 4 5
ability to follow oral instructions
Interactive oral communication with the use of
1 2 3 4 5
camera and microphone
Accuracy of oral responses: Use of vocabulary
1 2 3 4 5
and grammar studied in the lesson
Pronunciation and fluency 1 2 3 4 5

Description of levels
Needs help level: A student gets 1 as a final session score. He/She shows tech savvy to interact with the
class but lack of knowledge and practice does not allow him/her to perform orally in the level.
Needs some help level: A student gets 2 as a final session score. This is not a passing grade. He/She
shows tech savvy to interact with the class but has little knowledge and practice that do not allow him/her
to perform orally well in the level.
In progress level: A student gets 3 as a final session score. The student shows tech savvy to interact with
the class but it’s clear that he/she has not completed all previous work and often struggles to perform
orally at the level.
Good level: A student gets 4 as a final session score. The student shows tech savvy to interact orally with
the class and it’s clear that he/she has completed previous work. However, he/she needs reinforcement
and additional practice in the topics discussed.
Very good level: A student gets 5 as a final session score. The student shows tech savvy to interact with
the class and it’s clear that he/she has completed previous work. He/She can perform oral tasks easily and
shows an excellent command of vocabulary and grammar structures.

* Tech savvy must be a prerequisite to take part in synchronous sessions. Teacher may be flexible during the
first sessions as students get used to the platform.
 RUBRICS TO MARK STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN EACH SYNCH SESSION
Performance level →
Needs help Needs some help In progress Good Very good
Criteria ↓
Task achievement, oral 1 2 3 4 5
participation, preparation Does not understand Has difficulty understanding Understands Understands instructions Understands and
for the class, instructions for tasks nor instructions for tasks, instructions for tasks for tasks with little performs instructions for
comprehension and ability performs them requires frequent repetition with some rephrasing and performs tasks successfully.
to follow instructions successfully. and rephrasing and performs rephrasing and most of them. Well-prepared for the
Lack of preparation for the some instructions performs some Quite well-prepared for session
session successfully. instructions well. the session Gives extended oral
Gives simple oral phrases Shows little preparation for Only partially Gives extended oral answers
and/or single-word the session prepared for the answers most of the
answers Gives single-sentence oral session times.
answers. Gives quite
extended oral
answers sometimes.
Interactive oral Starts and keeps the Starts and keeps the Starts and keeps the Starts and keeps the Starts and keeps the
communication with the conversation when conversation rarely. Interacts conversation going conversation going conversation going
use of camera and prompted by instructor and with difficulty sometimes. Interacts easily. Interacts easily. successfully. Interacts
microphone classmates. Interacts with Maintains simple exchanges. with some Connects his/her fluently and skilfully,
lots of difficulty. Needs prompting and support hesitation. contributions to the contributing to the
Has considerable difficulty when interacting. Keeps the conversation. conversation.
maintaining simple Little use of camera and/or conversation going Develops the Develops the
exchanges. when instructor requests. with very little conversation adequately conversation effectively
Needs additional prompting and Uses camera at most Uses camera at all times
prompting and support Lots of background noise support times and/or when spontaneously.
when interacting. while speaking and Uses camera instructor requests.
No use of webcam interacting in class affects sometimes and/or No background noise
communication constantly. when instructor Some background noise while speaking and
Too much Background requests. while speaking and interacting in class.
noise while speaking and interacting in class.
interacting in class affects Background noise
communication seriously. while speaking and
interacting in class
affects
communication.
Accuracy of oral 1 2 3 4 5
responses: Use of Fails to use the language Poor use of language Uses few language Shows a fine use of most Shows a good use of
vocabulary and grammar structures studied in the structures studied in the structures studied in language structures language structures
studied in the lesson lesson when performing lesson when performing the lesson when studied in the lesson studied in the lesson
orally. orally. performing orally. when performing orally. when performing orally.
Lacks vocabulary Limited vocabulary for the Fair use of Uses a range of Uses a range of
appropriate for the task. tasks. vocabulary for the vocabulary appropriate vocabulary appropriate
A lot of Spanish Presence of false friends, tasks. for most of the tasks. for the task.
interference quite a lot of Spanish
interference
Pronunciation and fluency 1 2 3 4 5
Poor pronunciation Often poor pronunciation Fair pronunciation Mostly intelligible Intelligible
Words are not stressed Words are rarely stressed Fair use of pronunciation. pronunciation
correctly. correctly. rising/falling Intonation Intonation
No use of rising/falling Little use of rising/falling intonation (rising/falling) is (rising/falling) is
intonation when needed. intonation when needed. Speech is slow and generally adequate. appropriate.
Speech is slow except for Speech is slow except for with constant Fluent and smooth Fluent and clearly
short or memorized short or memorized hesitation speech with some articulated speech. Few
expressions. expressions. hesitation or no hesitations.
Quite a lot of Spanish
interference.

Adapted from

UPC English Program Synchronous session rubric (2016)

Cambridge Speaking scales

Punctuality for regular course sessions Punctuality for intensive course sessions

Time Penalty Time Penalty

 El alumno que comete una falta contra la probidad académica en su participación y producción
en una sesión sincrónica recibe una calificación equivalente a cero en la evaluación de dicha
sesión (calificación correspondiente al criterio de evaluación PA).
 La reiterancia de la falta será informada a las autoridades para el debido proceso disciplinario.