APPENDIX 8
VERMONT
GRADUATION CHALLENGE PRESENTATION
REVIEW
ASSESSMENT
Delivery
High Quality:
- Student was clear and confident.
- Student's delivery holds the audience's attention from beginning to end.
- Student makes direct eye contact.
Acceptable:
- Frequent eye contact but refers to notes occasionally.
- Student makes a few distracting movements and expressions.
Unacceptable:
- Student does not appear sufficiently prepared.
- Student rarely makes eye contact and reads from notes the majority of the time.
- Student has extensive distracting movements and expressions.
- Student does not speak for 8 to 10 minutes.
Organization
High Quality:
- Organization of presentation significantly enhances understanding.
Acceptable:
- The presentation is organized.
- Introduction gives an overview of the content.
- There is a clear beginning, middle, and end of the speech.
- The conclusion summarizes the main points.
Unacceptable:
- Introduction does not give an overview of the presentation.
- Order and progression of ideas creates confusion.
- Transition from one part of the speech to the next is unclear.
- There is not an obvious conclusion and the presentation ends abruptly.
Content
High Quality:
- Student makes insightful connections to personal experience, observation, and reading.
- Student chooses exceptional details in supporting main points.
- The use of visual aids or demonstrations significantly enhances the presentation.
Acceptable:
- Main points are supported with appropriate information and details.
- Student makes relevant connections to personal experience, observation, and reading.
- Incorporation of visual aids supports presentation.
Unacceptable:
- Student does not develop or support his or her ideas with sufficient information and details.
- Student fails to make relevant connections to personal experience, observation, and reading.
- Quality of or reliance on visual aids sufficiently detracts from the quality of the speech.
- No tangible product is used.