The Role of Using a Rubric in Assessing Sophomore Students Oral Performance at KEU and Balkh Universities

Abstract

The main goal of this article is to explore the ways to assess students’ oral performance (what students exactly do and what are teachers’ expectation from students by using a rubric. The main problem in this research is uncertainty and students complain about their grades while teachers cannot convince their students. Since the areas of assessment are not clear it causes a challenge between teachers and students. Through this research I found that using a rubric for assessing students’ performance in any courses based on the aim and objectives of a course can convince educators in term of learning outcome. The importance of this research paper is that if teachers are using rubrics and guide learners in assessing their spoken performance for more transparency or clarity between teachers and students it makes the result of teaching/learning more acceptable and the learning outcome will be more productive. This is a qualitative approach research and the participants of this study were 30 teachers and 20 students from Kabul Education University and Balkh university of English departments. After reading this research article hopefully teachers can get useful information for creating and designing useful rubrics including standard criteria to facilitate evaluation and assessment. In teaching and learning process that is the evidence of professional assessment in different level especially at the university level. In conclusion, this research has found that lack of using rubrics cause uncertainty between teachers and students. When teachers use a rubric for more clarity to guide students what they exactly do in their performance and what the teacher expect them. Therefore, they can convince each other and reach in to satisfactory results.