Oral Presentation Rubric

Louisiana Voices Folklife in Education Project www.louisianavoices.org Unit III Discovering the Obvious, Lesson 1 The Child Unit VII Material Culture, Lesson 6 Crafts and Domestic Arts Oral Presentation Rubric Name ________________________________________________ Date _____________________ Title/Topic ________________________________________________________________________ Performance Element Distinguished ProficientApprenticeNovicePossibleActual Awareness of Audience • Significantly in-creases audience un-derstanding and knowledge of topic; • Effectively convinces an audience to recog-nize the validity of a point of view. • Raises audience un-derstanding and aware-ness of most points; • Clear point of view, but development or support is inconclusive and incomplete. • Raises audience understand-ing and knowledge of some points; • Point of view may be clear, but lacks development or sup-port. • Fails to increase au-dience understanding of knowledge of topic; • Fails to effectively convince the audi-ence. Strength of Material, Organization • Clear purpose and subject; • Pertinent examples, facts, and/or statistics • Conclusions/ideas are supported by evi-dence; • Major ideas summa-rized and audience left with full understanding of presenter’s position. • Has some success defining purpose and subject; • Some examples, facts, and/or statistics that support the subject; • Includes some data or evidence which sup-ports conclusions or ideas; • May need to refine summary or final idea. • Attempts to define purpose and subject; • Weak examples, facts, and/or statistics, which do not adequately support the sub-ject; • Includes very thin data or evidence in support of ideas or conclusions; • Major ideas may need to be summarized or audience is left with vague idea to remember. • Subject and purpose are not clearly de-fined; • Very weak or no support of subject through use of exam-ples, facts, and/or sta-tistics; • Totally insufficient support for ideas or conclusions; • Major ideas left un-clear, audience left with no new ideas. Louisiana Voices Folklife in Education Project www.louisianavoices.org Delivery • Relaxed, self-confident and appro-priately dressed for purpose or audience; • Builds trust and holds attention by direct eye contact with all parts of audience; • Fluctuation in volume and inflection help to maintain audience in-terest and emphasize key points. • Quick recovery from minor mistakes; • Appropriately dressed; • Fairly consistent use of direct eye contact with audience; • Satisfactory variation of volume and inflection. • Some tension or indifference apparent and possible inap-propriate dress for purpose or audience; • Occasional but unsustained eye contact with audience; • Uneven volume with little or no inflection. • Nervous tension ob-vious and/or inappro-priately dressed for purpose or audience; • No effort to make eye contact with audi-ence; • Low volume and/or monotonous tone cause audience to disengage. Rubric adapted from Rubrics for Firsthand Biography at www.servtech.com/public/germaine/rubric.html Oral Presentation Rubric 2