Classroom Debate Rubric

Total
Criteria 10-9 points 8-7 points 6-5 points 4-3 points 2-1 point
Points

Statements and Most statements and

All statements, body Statements,
responses were responses were Statements,
language, and responses and/or
respectful and used respectful and in responses and/or body
responses were body language were
appropriate language, appropriate language, language were
Respect for respectful and were borderline
but once or twice body but there was one consistently not
Other Team inappropriate appropriate. Some
respectful
language sarcastic remarks
language was not sarcastic remark

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

All counter- Most counter- Most counter-

Some counter Counter-arguments
arguments were arguments were arguments were
arguments were weak were not accurate
accurate, relevant and accurate, relevant, and accurate and relevant,
Rebuttal and irrelevant and/or relevant
strong strong but several were weak

Every major point was

Every major point was Every major point was supported with facts,
well supported with adequately supported statistics and/or Some points were
All points were not
several relevant facts, with relevant facts, examples, but the supported well, others
Use of supported
statistics and/or statistics and/or relevance of some was were not
Facts/Statistics
examples examples
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

(premise) and (premise) and (premise) and (premise) and (premise) and
Organization
organized in a tight, organized in a tight, organized in a tight, organized in a tight, organized in a tight,
logical fashion logical fashion logical fashion logical fashion logical fashion

The team clearly

understood the topic The team seemed
The team clearly The team seemed to
in depth and The team did not show
understood the topic understand the main
an adequate
 presented their in depth and points of the topic and understanding of the
Understanding to understand the
information presented their presented those with topic
of Topic main points of the
information with ease ease
topic, but didn’t
forcefully and
present with ease
convincingly

Total Points: 60 points

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