The final element in many student projects is a classroom presentation. This is an effective way to share the benefits of student work with the whole class. Presentations may be graded as part of a course mark.
It is essential to link presentation assignments to learning objective(s). Students must understand how their efforts will help them achieve course success. Assignments must be clearly written with achievable goals. Students benefit from a scoring rubric shared with them in advance of the work to be done.
Web Resources:
Evaluating multimedia presentations, by David Walbert
“A PowerPoint presentation is just another form of communication, and the same rules apply to multimedia that apply to writing or verbal communication. This article offers guidelines for using and assigning multimedia presentations in the classroom and includes a rubric based on the Five Features of Effective Writing….. It’s possible to use PowerPoint as part of a presentation that is thoughtful, educational, and encouraging of higher-order thinking, that gives students a chance to apply, synthesize, and evaluate information rather than merely reciting it, that opens the door to debate rather than closing it.”
- This link offers a presentation scoring rubric developed by Caroline McCullen – Presentation scoring rubric.
- This is an excellent detailed scoring rubic for a multimedia presentations.