Grades
While we use rubrics to judge how well how well learners have met
appropriate and clear expectations set for them and to give them
feedback about their performance along a quality continuum, we also
know that generally we are expected to issue grades as a descriptor
of student performance.
Teachers often construct their own scales for converting rubrics
to grades. As with rubrics, students need to be clearly informed
of what the lowest "acceptable" score would be. The Farifax
County Public Schools foreign language site in Virginia provides
one model of a formula for converting scores from a point-based
analytical rubric to a “grade.” Choose rubrics
and then Scoring of Analytic Task under one of
the types of assessments listed. The points from the Scoring
the Level 1 Speaking Task (Analytic
Rubric) are converted according to the formula provided. A Conversion
of Percentage Score to Gradebook Points chart is also available.
The assessment
section (PDF) of the Nebraska
Foreign Language Frameworks Addendum also features an assessment
score conversion chart for converting a series of raw scores to
percentage scores. The chart is found on the last page of the pdf
document.
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