COURSE: LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT CLASS: __________________ STUDENT NAME: _______________________________________________________ ORAL PRESENTATION RUBRIC 2_Needs Criteria 5_Excellent 4_Good 3_Fair Improvement Holds attention of entire Consistent use of direct eye Displays minimal eye Holds no eye contact audience with the use of contact with audience, but contact with audience, with audience, as entire direct eye contact, seldom still returns to notes while reading mostly from report is read from notes looking at notes the notes Delivery Speaks with satisfactory Speaks in low volume Speaks with fluctuation in variation of volume and Speaks in uneven volume and/or monotonous volume and inflection to inflection with little or no inflection tone, which causes maintain audience interest audience to disengage and emphasize key points Demonstrates full Is at ease with expected Is uncomfortable with Does not have grasp of knowledge by answering answers to all questions, information and is able to information and cannot all class questions with without elaboration answer only rudimentary answer questions about explanations and questions subject elaboration Has somewhat clear Content/ purpose and subject; some Attempts to define purpose Does not clearly define Organization Provides clear purpose examples, facts, and/or and subject; provides weak subject and purpose; and subject; pertinent statistics that support the examples, facts, and/ provides weak or no examples, facts, and/or subject; includes some data or statistics, which do not support of subject; gives statistics; supports or evidence that supports adequately support the insufficient support for conclusions/ideas with conclusions subject; includes very thin ideas or conclusions evidence data or evidence Demonstrates strong Shows some enthusiastic Shows little or mixed Shows no interest in enthusiasm about topic feelings about topic feelings about the topic topic presented during entire presentation being presented Raises audience Fails to increase Enthusiasm/ Significantly increases understanding and Raises audience audience understanding Audience audience understanding awareness of most points understanding and of knowledge of topic Awareness and knowledge of topic; knowledge of some points convinces an audience to recognize the validity and importance of the subject. The fonts are easy to read Sometimes the fonts are Overall readability is difficult The text is extremely and point size varies easy to read, but in a few with lengthy paragraphs, difficult to read with appropriately for headings places the use of fonts, too many different fonts, long blocks of text and and text. italics, bold, long dark or busy background, small point size of fonts, paragraphs, color, or busy overuse of bold or lack of inappropriate Use of italics, bold, and background detracts and appropriate indentations of contrasting colors, poor indentations enhances does not enhance text. use of headings, PowerPoint readability. readability. subheadings, Slides indentations, or bold Text is appropriate in formatting. length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of text. General ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Comments ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. TOTAL …………………/20 SCORE