6 Assessing productive and interactive skills Personal refl ection

 
Assessing productive and interactive skills 
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Table 6.3
 
A simple rating scale
Weak
Adequate
Good
1
2
3
Speaks intelligibly
1
2
3
Opens and closes the conversation appropriately
1
2
3
Has suffi cient vocabulary to answer basic personal questions 
(age, job, family, etc.)
1
2
3
Produces simple personal questions accurately enough to be 
understood
As with task types, there are a number of choices open to the designer 
in creating scales that fi t the purpose of a specifi c assessment. Weigle 
(2002, p. 109) reviewed rating scales used to score writing assessments 
and found two features that could be used to distinguish between 
different types. These apply equally well to scales used to assess speaking.