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