Criteria 5 Points 4 Points 3 Points 2 Points 1 Point

Adequate
Exceptional Inadequate
Good depth and content, Limited content,
depth and content,
relevance, somewhat not very
relevance to the irrelevant, no
Content (30 sufficient relevant, limited relevant, weak
topic, strong supporting
points) supporting supporting supporting
supporting evidence, and a
evidence, and a evidence, and a evidence, and an
evidence, and confusing
clear message somewhat clear unclear message
clear message message
message
Adequate
Clear structure organization,
Weak Poor
Clear and logical with minor some confusion
organization, organization, no
structure, issues, in structure,
unclear clear structure,
smooth transitions are transitions are
Organization (25 structure, abrupt disjointed
transitions, and generally somewhat
points) transitions, and transitions, and a
effective use of smooth, and smooth, and a
an ineffective lack of effective
introduction and effective somewhat
introduction and introduction and
conclusion introduction and effective
conclusion conclusion
conclusion introduction and
conclusion
Adequate
Weak delivery,
Generally delivery, Poor delivery, no
lack of
Confident, confident and occasional lack confidence or
confidence,
engaging, varied engaging, some of confidence or engagement,
monotonous
Delivery (25 tone, variations in engagement, monotone,
tone,
points) appropriate tone, limited variations inappropriate
inappropriate
pace, gestures, appropriate in tone, and pace, gestures,
pace, gestures,
and eye contact pace, gestures, inconsistent and no eye
and poor eye
and eye contact pace, gestures, contact
contact
and eye contact
Inadequate use
Adequate use of
Good use of Weak use of of language, very
Excellent use of language,
language, varied language, poor limited
language, rich limited
Language and vocabulary, and vocabulary, and vocabulary, and
vocabulary, and vocabulary, and
Styles (15 points) mostly inappropriate completely
appropriate style somewhat
appropriate style style for the inappropriate
for the audience appropriate style
for the audience audience style for the
for the audience
audience
Somewhat
Perfectly adheres Mostly adheres Consistently
Time adheres to the Frequently goes
to the allotted to the allotted goes over or
Management (5 allotted time over or under
time with a well- time with minor under the
points) with noticeable the allotted time
paced speech deviations allotted time
deviations