Scoring Rubrics for Speaking Assessment in the Secondary School EFL Classroom

 

 

Nur Mukminatien

 

 

 

The newly implemented 2004 English Curriculum in Indonesia requires the teachers to employ authentic assessment in addition to the conventional formal test. For most teachers, however, the most difficult or confusing step of the assessment centers around the scoring procedure to provide valid and reliable judgment. This paper presents models of scoring rubric for speaking assessment in the Secondary School EFL classroom, which helps the teachers collect adequate samples of students' performance. The alternative rubrics presented in this paper accommodate two major approaches: the analytic and holistic approach. The first provides information on the aspects of the students' strengths and weaknesses as shown in the scores of the features of the speaking skills, while the second serves as supplementary data for overall evaluation at the end of the course. Thus, the two approaches contribute to the improvement of the teaching practices but they may serve different purposes in evaluation.

 

 

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Mukminatien, N. (2005, April). Scoring rubrics for speaking assessment in the secondary school EFL classroom. Paper presented at the RELC International Seminar, Singapore.

 

 

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