Classroom Debate Evaluation

Affirmative Opposition
team points team points
Criteria 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point (SPEAKERS 1- (SPEAKERS 1-
2-3) ) 2-3)
All statements, body Statements and responses Most statements and Statements, responses
Statements, responses
language, and responses were respectful and used responses were respectful and/or body language
and/or body language
were respectful and appropriate language, but and in appropriate language, were borderline
Overall Respect were consistently not
appropriate language was once or twice body but there was one sarcastic appropriate. Some
respectful
used language was not remark sarcastic remarks

All information Most information presented in

Most information presented Some information was Information had some
presented in this debate the debate was clear and
in this debate was clear, accurate, but there were major inaccuracies OR
Information & was clear, accurate and accurate,
accurate and thorough some minor inaccuracies was usually not clear
facts/statistics thorough but was not usually thorough

All counter-arguments were Most counter-arguments Most counter-arguments were Counter-arguments were
Some counter arguments
accurate, relevant and were accurate, relevant, and accurate and relevant, but not accurate and/or
were weak and irrelevant
Rebuttal strong strong several were weak relevant
All arguments were clearly Most arguments were Several arguments were A few arguments were A couple of arguments
tied to an idea (premise) clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea were clearly tied to an
and organized in a tight, (premise) and organized in (premise) and organized in a (premise) and organized idea
Organization
logical fashion a tight, logical fashion tight, logical fashion in a tight, logical fashion (premise) and organized
in a tight, logical fashion
The participant clearly
The participant clearly The participant seemed to The participant seemed The participant did not
understood the topic in
understood the topic in understand the main points of to understand the main show an adequate
depth and presented their
Understanding of depth and presented their the topic and points of the topic, but understanding of
information forcefully and
the topic information with ease presented those with ease didn’t present with ease the topic
convincingly

The participant delivered The participant

The participant delivered The participant delivered with The participant
Delivery (body with great confidence; body demonstrated a very
with solid confidence; body decent level of confidence; demonstrated a rather
language, voice, language was used to poor delivery, without
language was mostly there were some stumbles and limited amount of self-
speed, etc) present the arguments in a proper body language
effective during the debate. pronunciation slops. confidence.
convincing way. use.

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