State of Israel

Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport

English Inspectorate
Rubric for Assessing Written Presentation – Module D 2 0 0 6

Criteria Descriptors

• information is relevant to the • some information is irrelevant • information is irrelevant to

topic to the topic the topic
• text is well organized • text is fairly well organized • text is poorly organized
Content and • content is easily understood • content is sometimes difficult • content cannot be
Organization • text is written mostly in to follow understood
pupil's own words • chunks of the text are not • text is not written in pupil's
written in pupil's own words own words.

8 6 4 2 0

• correct use of varied • correct use of appropriate • limited or inappropriate

vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
Vocabulary • appropriate word/idiom • several errors of word/idiom • frequent errors of
choice and usage form, choice and usage word/idiom form, choice
• use of appropriate register • occasional use of and usage
inappropriate register • use of inappropriate register

6 5 4 3 1

• correct use of basic language
structures
• hardly any errors of word
Language Use order, connectors, pronouns,
prepositions
• occasional incorrect use of
language structures
• several errors of word order,
connectors, pronouns,
prepositions
• consistent incorrect use of
language structures
• frequent errors of word
order, connectors, pronouns,
prepositions

12 9 6 3 0

• hardly any errors of spelling, • several errors of spelling, • frequent errors of spelling,
Mechanics punctuation, capitalization punctuation, capitalization, punctuation, capitalization,
run-ons run-ons

4 3 2 1 0

Teachers can give in-between grades e.g. 9 pts.

Deduction for length:

# of Words Point Deduction

100 - 120 ---
90 - 100 1-3
80 - 90 3-6
70 - 80 6-9
60 - 70 9 - 12
50 - 60 12 - 15
40 – 50 15 - 18
less than 40 30
Deduction for letter format:
• If the format of presentation does not include all the required elements, deduct up to 2 points.
TOTAL: ___ / 30