The Listening-Speaking courses of Summit K12’s Connect to Literacy - TELPAS Readiness program provide automated grading of student voice recordings using Artificial Intelligence designed to follow the TELPAS Speaking Scoring rubrics. Although auto-scoring works a majority of the time, there may be outliers to this experience. The auto-score of any Speaking item type question can be manually overwritten to ensure the score is a more accurate reflection of the student’s English-speaking proficiency.
Besides outliers, there are times when students may experience issues with their microphones while recording their answers on an assessment or activity. If a teacher can assess the student's spoken response separately, then they can overwrite the speaking scores for the questions affected.
Furthermore, if a question shows as Pending, instead of having a score, that means the recording could not be scored by the system. Instead, the teacher can score the response following the steps below to remove the Pending label.
1. To overwrite a score, access the Teacher Reports Dashboard by clicking Reports at the top right of a class.
2. Once on the Teacher Reports Dashboard, select the Listening-Speaking Progress report if a score on a benchmark or a Speaking PLP activity will be overwritten.
If looking to overwrite the score in an individually unlocked Speaking activity, select the corresponding report for the section in which the activity is unlocked.
3. Click on a student's name to see their work and access their scores.
4. Then, click on the student's score to access the responses to a specific benchmark or activity.
5. Go to a speaking question and click on the green box.
6. This will pull up the Speaking rubric. Overwrite any rating by selecting a new score for each Skill Area or select an OVERALL score using the dropdown menu and click Save.
In most circumstances, modifying a student’s Speaking score will update their Personalized Learning Plan (PLP) accordingly.
Summit K12 highly recommends teachers listen to student recordings throughout the year to ensure the scores are accurate and make changes as needed.