ORAL PRESENTATION RUBRIC ASSESSMENT SHEET

Student’s Name: Student ID:

Course Code/Title: Semester:
Title of Presentation:
Learning Objective: The student will prepare and deliver an effective business presentation.
Instruction: Each performance area of the student’s presentation is rated on a scale of 1 to 4, with 4 being best.
Nonverbal Exceptional Admirable Acceptable Poor Score
Skills 4 3 2 1
Eye Contact Holds attention of Consistent use of Displayed minimal eye No eye contact
entire audience direct eye contact contact with audience, with audience, as
with the use of with audience, but still whilereading mostly entire report is
direct eye contact, returns to notes. from notes. read from note.
seldom
Body Movements seem Made movements or Very little movement No movement or
Language fluid and help the gesturesthat enhance or descriptive gestures. descriptive
audience articulation. gestures.
visualize.
Poise Displays relaxed, Makes minor Displays mild Tension and
self-confident mistakes, but quickly tension; hastrouble nervousness is
nature about self, recovers from them; recovering from obvious; has trouble
with no-mistakes. displays little or no mistakes. recovering from
tension.

Verbal Skills Exceptional Admirable Acceptable Poor Score

4 3 2 1
Enthusiasm Demonstrates a Occasionally shows Shows some Shows absolutely no
strong, positive positive feelings negativity interest in topic
feeling about topic about topic toward topic presented.
during entire presented.
Speaking Uses a clear voice Presenter’s voice is Presenter’s voice is Presenter mumbles,
Skills and speaks at a good clear. The pace is a low. Thepace is much talks very fast, and
pace little slow or fast at too speaks
so audience rapid/slow. Audience too quietly for a
members can hear times. Most audience members have majority of students to
presentation. Does members can hear difficulty hearing hear & understand.

Timing Exceptional Admirable Acceptable Poor Score

4 3 2 1
Length of Within two minutes Within four minutes Within six minutes Ten or more minutes
Presentation of allotted time +/-. of allotted time +/-. of allottedtime +/- above or below
allotted
time.
Exceptional Admirable Acceptable Poor Score
Content
4 3 2 1
Subject An abundance of Sufficient information There is a great deal Goal of research
Knowledge material clearly with many good points of information that is unclear, information
related to the topic is made, uneven balance not clearly included that does not
presented. Points are and little consistency. integrated or support research claims
clearly made and connected to the in any way.
research.
Organization Information is Information is Audience has difficulty Audience cannot
presented in a presented in logical following presentation understand
logical and sequence which because the presentation because
interesting sequence audience can follow. presentation jumps there is no sequence
which audience can around and lacks clear of information.
follow. Flows well. transitions.
Visuals Excellent visuals that Appropriate visuals Visuals are used Little or no visuals, too
are tied into the are used and explained but not explained or much text on slides.
overall story of the by the speaker. put in context.
Mechanics Presentation has Presentation has no Presentation has Presentation has many
no misspellings or more than two three misspellings spelling and/or
grammatical errors.
grammatical errors. misspellings and/or and/or grammatical
grammatical errors. errors.

Total Score________/40