Debate Rubric

Total
Criteria 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points
All statements, body Statements and responses Most statements and Statements, responses Statements, responses
language, and responses were respectful and used responses were and/or body language and/or body language
Respect for were respectful and were appropriate language, but respectful and in were borderline were consistently not
Other Team inappropriate language once or twice body appropriate language, appropriate. Some respectful
language was not but there was one sarcastic remarks
sarcastic remark
All information presented Most information presented Most information presented Some information Information had some
in this debate was clear, in this debate was clear, in the debate was clear and was accurate, but major inaccuracies OR
Information accurate and thorough accurate and thorough accurate, but was not there were some was usually not clear
usually thorough minor inaccuracies

All counter-arguments were Most counter-arguments Most counter-arguments Some counter Counter-arguments were
accurate, relevant and were accurate, relevant, were accurate and arguments were not accurate and/or
Rebuttal strong and strong relevant, but several were weak and irrelevant relevant
weak
Every major point was Every major point was Every major point was Some points were supported All points were not
well supported with adequately supported with supported with facts, well, others were not supported
Use of several relevant facts, relevant facts, statistics statistics and/or
Facts/Statistics statistics and/or examples and/or examples examples, but the
relevance of some was
questionable
All arguments were Most arguments were Most arguments were Most arguments were Most arguments were
clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea
Organization
(premise) and organized in (premise) and organized in (premise) and organized in (premise) and organized in (premise) and organized in
a tight, logical fashion a tight, logical fashion a tight, logical fashion a tight, logical fashion a tight, logical fashion
The team clearly The team clearly The team seemed to The team seemed The team did not
understood the topic in understood the topic in understand the main to understand the main show an adequate
Understanding depth and presented their depth and presented their points of the topic and points of the topic, but understanding of the
of Topic information information with ease presented those with ease didn’t present with ease topic
forcefully and
convincingly
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