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Oral Presentation Rubric
4—Excellent 3—Good 2—Fair 1—Needs Improvement
Delivery • Holds attention of entire • Consistent use of direct eye • Displays minimal eye • Holds no eye contact with
audience with the use of contact with audience, but contact with audience, while audience, as entire report is
direct eye contact, seldom still returns to notes reading mostly from the read from notes
looking at notes • Speaks with satisfactory notes • Speaks in low volume and/ or
• Speaks with fluctuation in variation of volume and • Speaks in uneven volume monotonous tone, which
volume and inflection to inflection with little or no inflection causes audience to disengage
maintain audience interest
and emphasize key points
Content/ • Demonstrates full • Is at ease with expected • Is uncomfortable with • Does not have grasp of
Organization knowledge by answering answers to all questions, information and is able to information and cannot
all class questions without elaboration answer only rudimentary answer questions about
with explanations and • Has somewhat clear purpose questions subject
elaboration and subject; some examples, • Attempts to define purpose • Does not clearly define
• Provides clear purpose and facts, and/or statistics that and subject; provides subject and purpose; provides
subject; pertinent examples, support the subject; includes weak examples, facts, and/ or weak or no support of subject;
facts, and/or statistics; some data or evidence that statistics, which do not gives insufficient support for
supports conclusions/ideas supports conclusions adequately support the subject; ideas or conclusions
with evidence includes very thin
data or evidence
Enthusiasm/ • Demonstrates strong • Shows some enthusiastic • Shows little or mixed • Shows no interest in topic
Audience enthusiasm about topic feelings about topic feelings about the topic presented
during entire presentation • Raises audience being presented • Fails to increase audience
Awareness • Significantly increases understanding and • Raises audience understanding of
audience understanding and awareness of most points understanding and knowledge of topic
knowledge of topic; knowledge of some points
convinces an audience to
recognize the validity and
importance of the subject
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