CELT is currently accepting applications for a year-long scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) institute for faculty and staff. This year's request is targeting two areas of interest:
One approach to assessing communication is to describe general competency levels in three ways—as an overall assessment of abilities, as a summary of performance on a specific task, or as a measure of growth in rhetorical categories (context-substance-organization-style-delivery). To describe these levels, here is the six-part competency scale for multimodal communication assessment developed and used by ISUComm:
Content
1. Material
2. Organization with transition
to next speaker
3. Audience engagement
Don Payne, ISUComm Director, Donna Niday, ISUComm Assessment Coordinator, and Quinn Warnick, ISUComm Instructional Technology Coordinator, presented a panel on "Assessment: A New Challenge for Multimodal Communication Programs," on May 29, 2008, at the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, TX.
For more information on this Peer Critique Evaluation, read a summary of pros and cons of this method.
For more information on this Peer Critique Evaluation, read a summary of pros and cons of this method.
Speaker’s Name: _____________________________________________
Listener’s Name: _____________________________________________
1. List the Main Points for the speech as you listen.
2. What was the pattern of organization?
3. Write down a connective you heard the speaker use during the presentation.
Oral Communication: Expressing ideas clearly when communicating orally.
Use the Evaluation Sheet following this rubric as a guide for grading the oral presentation.
For more information on this Holistic Grading Approach visit a holistic grading overview or
For more information on this Holistic Grading Approach, read a summary of pros and cons of this method.
The Informative Speech Feedback Form offers an example of the following holistic grading approach.
For more information on this Modified Point System Grading, read a summary of pros and cons of this method.
The following rubric for assessing speeches is based on a 100-point scale. To translate to letter grades for subsections, use the following table as a guide.
10 points
9 = A