SPAN 2313 Digital Story Grading Rubric (50 points possible)

Criteria Needs Improvement Approaches Target Target

Content 0-10 11-13 14-15
Content not appropriate for the Content appropriate for the assignment Creative approach to the assignment
assignment requirements. And/Or requirements. And/Or requirements. And
Story lacks cohesion and/or more Appropriate title and plot or storyline with Appropriate title and a well-developed plot
than one element of the plot may lack beginning, middle, and end, but one or storyline with a clear beginning,
clarity or development element may lack clarity or development. middle, and end.
Use of Images 0-2 3-4 5
Images do not correspond to the plot Images correspond to the plot of the Images correspond to and enhance the
of the story and/or are not synched to story and are generally synched to the plot of the story and are correctly synched
the narration narration to the narration
Length of 1 2 3
Narration Narration is approximately four Narration is approximately five minutes in Narration is more than five minutes in
minutes in length length length
Overall 0-4 5-6 7
Comprehensibility Often confusing to a listener not Can usually be understood without Can be understood without confusion by a
accustomed to the speech of language confusion by a listener not accustomed to listener not accustomed to the speech of
learners the speech of language learners language learners
Pronunciation 0-2 3-4 5
More than five errors of vowel or Generally correct vowel and consonant Correct vowel and consonant sounds and
consonant sounds or syllable stress sounds and appropriate syllable stress appropriate syllable stress with no more
with between three and five errors than two minor errors
Vocabulary 0-2 3-4 5
Vocabulary is inaccurate and includes Vocabulary is generally accurate but may Vocabulary is accurate and varied with no
more than three errors in word choice be repetitive or include two or three more than one error in word choice
errors in word choice
Grammatical 0-2 3-4 5
Accuracy Grammatical concepts central to the Grammatical concepts central to the Grammatical concepts central to the
storytelling task are often used storytelling task are sometimes used storytelling task are generally used
inaccurately with more than six errors inaccurately with between three and six accurately with no more than two errors
errors
Discourse Length 0-2 3-4 5
Narration consists of complete Narration consists of complete sentences Narration consists of complete sentences
sentences but connectors and with some use of connectors and cohesive with connectors and cohesive devices
cohesive devices are lacking, or there devices successfully used to create a story
are sentence fragments