The Expressive Mode course of Summit K12’s Connect to Literacy WIDA Mastery program provides automated grading of student voice recordings using Artificial Intelligence designed to follow the WIDA Speaking Scoring rubrics. Although AI works a majority of the time, there may be outliers to this experience. The AI grading 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 AI 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 our AI. Instead, the teacher can score the response following the steps below to remove the Pending label or contact support@summitk12.com.
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 Expressive Mode Progress report if a score on a benchmark or a Speaking ILLP 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 and click Save. Note that for certain questions, only some sections of the rubric will be available.
In most circumstances, modifying a student’s Speaking score will update their Individualized Language Learning Plan (ILLP) accordingly.
Summit K12 highly recommends teachers listen to student recordings throughout the year to ensure the scores are accurate and make changes as needed.
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