Evaluation

Process: 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.