Download the rubric
This child-friendly, printable rubric offers a way to recognise the plurilingual and intercultural competencies that children use every day.
You can use the rubric to:
- encourage learners to talk about their languages and cultural experiences
- identify learners’ strengths and areas for further development
- plan activities that value learners’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds
- involve families in conversations about their children’s learning
- support classroom observation and reflection
- embed inclusive practice in the classroom
- value and celebrate children's full linguistic and cultural repertoires – not only the official language of schooling.
Background
This rubric was created as part of a project in Catalonia aimed to design and trial an evaluation rubric to help teachers evaluate primary-aged children’s plurilingual and intercultural skills. What made this tool unique was how it was created – not only by researchers, but together with teachers, children, and parents/carers.
At the centre of the project was a simple idea: everyone involved should share a clear, child-friendly understanding of what plurilingual and intercultural competence means. This shared understanding should also link directly to children’s everyday experiences at school, at home, and in their communities. The project used 'can do' statements to describe these competencies and to make them meaningful in real-life, culturally and linguistically diverse contexts.
The rubric focuses on criteria that are:
- practical and easy to understand
- engaging and user-friendly for children, parents, and teachers
- aligned with everyday classroom activities
- digitally accessible.
- adaptable across different age groups in primary school
- visually supported, so families who do not share the school’s main language could also use it.
About the project
The rubric was developed through an Assessment Research Grant. The project, Creating a school-child-family evaluation rubric for evaluating children's plurilingual and intercultural competence in a Catalan primary school, was led by Janine Knight and Marta Segura. Read Creating a school-child-family evaluation rubric for evaluating children's plurilingual and intercultural competence in a Catalan primary school to find out more.
References
Janine Knight, Marta Segura (2025). Reflections on Addressing Educational Inequalities Through the Co-Creation of a Rubric for Assessing Children’s Plurilingual and Intercultural Competence
The rubric is quite attractive and explicit.