How to write a simplified rubric for students to use for peer evaluation:
Questions on your rubric might be easy for you to understand, but you don't want to use the same jargon for students' peer evaluation sheets.
Turn your criteria into a series of yes/no questions.
Make it easy on yourself to tally later-make everything easily add up to 100%. (e.g. 4 items - 25 points each; 5 items = 20 points each.
Don't let students have the options of giving 18 out of 20 points. This will just mean more tallying for you later.
Remember: You have the final grading power.
Speaking Course Projects: 3 Minute Speech
Students receive or choose a topic andhave to speak continuously on that topic for 1 minute.
How to choose a topic:
- Topics include subjects that you address in class, a chapter or section of the text book that is interesting but you cannot fit into the curriculum, a subject that develops through class discussions or current events from the news.
Other Students:
You might try some methods for keeping the other students interested while the presenters are speaking.
- Turn it into a listening activity.
- Have students write something down they found interesting about the topics that others discussed.
- Give students simplified copies of your rubric and have them do peer-evaluations.
Some options to consider are:
- taking notes- you could collect them or grade as homework
- deciding whether students can use notes during their speech-it might affect their ability to speak fluently and indepently, but it could enhance the performance of newer students.
- grading their performance- You should consider pausing and stalling techniques. Discourse markers (um, uh) should not be considered a stalling technique if used correctly.
- grading their content- Depending on your curriculum, you want to decide if the students need to be graded more on accuracy and fluency or on content or an equal measure of both.