Classroom Debate Rubric

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Levels of Performance Total

Category 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point Points
All statements, body Statements and Most statements and Statements, responses Statements,
language, and responses responses were responses were and/or body language responses and/or
Respect for were respectful and used respectful and used respectful and in were borderline body language
Other Team appropriate language. appropriate language appropriate language, appropriate. Some were consistently
once or twice. but there was one sarcastic remarks. not respectful.
sarcastic remarks.
All information Most information Most information Some counter Counter
Information presented in this debate presented in this debate presented in this debate arguments were weak arguments were
was clear, accurate and was clear, accurate and was clear and accurate and irrelevant. not accurate
thorough. thorough. but severally weak. and/or relevant.
Excellent defense and Satisfactory defense and Failure to defend some Some counter Failure to defend
attack against opposite attack. Attempted to find issues. Some successful arguments were weak issues. Unable to
Rebuttal side. Able to identify out weaknesses. attacks against opposite and irrelevant. attack opposite
weaknesses. side. side in most
issues.
Every major point was Every major point was Every major point was Some points were All points were
well supported with adequately supported supported with facts, supported well, others not supported.
Use of Facts several facts, statistics with relevant facts, statistics and/or were not.
and Statistics and/or examples. statistics and/or examples but the
examples. relevance of some was
questionable.
The team clearly The team clearly The team seemed to The team seemed to The team did not
understood the topic in understood the topic in understand the main understand the main show an
Understanding depth and presented their depth and presented their points of the topic and points of the topic, but adequate
the Topic information forcefully information with ease. presented those with didn’t present with understanding of
and convincingly. ease. ease. the topic.
Total Score