Aspects to be Evaluated

What Strengths Look Like

What’s OK

What Weaknesses Look Like

On Time 

 Everything at school. Ready to go.
. Knew how to set up visuals
. Had thought out where things should go.

Everything at school. Ready to go.

. Forgot parts at home.

.  Forgot whole project at home.

.  Work not ready.

Content 

.  Information well organized, clear & easy to follow.

.  Excellent, extensive information.

.  Spoke well in own words.

.  Used extensive technical/ subject related vocabulary.

. Talked as if you really were that person.

.  Made it clear what presentation was about at beginning.

.  Information easy to understand.

.  Good information.

. Used some technical/subject related vocabulary.

. Started into presentation without introduction.

.  Presentation difficult to follow/ unclear.

.  Too little information.

.  Used little or no technical/subject related vocabulary.

. Showed little understanding of topic.

Visual Information Presentation Devices

. costume
. artefact
. pictures in books or magazines
. map
. photograph
. diagram
. graph
 

Elaborate costume worn during presentation.
. Significance of clothing explained.

Artefacts brought & explained significance.

Had images tagged & organized in books.
. Showed several pictures
.  Pointed out important things in picture to direct audience viewing.

Presented a variety of visuals

Some attempt made to alter appearance to suit role.

Artefact brought.

Showed a picture from a book, image tagged..
 Visuals that were used were not easy to see.

No costume worn.

No artefact.

No image from a book presented.

Had visuals but importance not explained
. When showing pictures, just stated “This is, this is..”

Cue Card

.  Presentation outline on cue card showed order of information.

.  Knew presentation so well, hardly used cue card.

. Point form notes written out in order of presentation.

.  Cue card referred to during presentation.

.  No cue card.
.  Used full sheets rather than cue cards

.   Information written out in full sentences.

. Referred to computer print outs.

Presentation Technique

. Looked enthusiastic, interested.

. Made eye contact with audience.

. Delivery is fluent, well-paced.

. Referred to cue card only to prompt self.

.  Spoke well, using own words, descriptive language.

. Easy to hear.

. Eyes up occasionally.

. Appeared calm.

. Used cue card to refresh memory.

.  Talked to the audience (not ‘recited to’)

.  Back turned to the class while explaining visuals.

.  Little eye contact.

.  Hard to hear.

.  Nervous gestures.

.  Read information.

.  Did not speak in own words – sounded memorized from a script.