This document appears to be a rubric for evaluating oral presentations at the Thomas Armstrong Toro Specialized Science and Math Secondary School in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The rubric contains four levels of performance (Distinguished, Proficient, Apprentice, and Novice) to assess elements like awareness of audience, strength of material/organization, and delivery. Scores are given in each category to provide feedback on how well students increase audience understanding, organize supporting facts, and maintain eye contact/volume.

1. Specialized Science and Math Secondary School
THOMAS ARMSTRONG TORO
Ponce, Puerto Rico
English Program
Name: ________________________________ Group: _________ Date: ____________________
Course: _____________________ Teacher: Mr. Rodriguez
Oral Presentation Rubric
Performance
Distinguished (4) Proficient (3) Apprentice (2) Novice (1) Score
Element
• Significantly increases audience
• Raises audience understanding • Fails to increase
understanding and knowledge of • Raises audience understanding
and awareness of most points; audience understanding of
Awareness topic; and knowledge of some points;
• Clear point of view, but knowledge of topic;
of Audience • Effectively convinces an • Point of view may be clear, but
development or support is • Fails to effectively
audience to recognize the validity lacks development or support.
inconclusive and incomplete. convince the audience.
of a point of view.
• Subject and purpose are
• Attempts to define purpose
• Has some success defining not clearly defined;
• Clear purpose and subject; and subject;
purpose and subject; • Very weak or no support
• Pertinent examples, facts, • Weak examples, facts, and/or
• Some examples, facts, and/or of subject through use of
and/or statistics statistics, which do not
Strength of statistics that support the examples, facts, and/or
• Conclusions/ideas are adequately support the subject;
subject; statistics;
Material, supported by evidence;
• Includes some data or
• Includes very thin data or
• Totally insufficient
Organization • Major ideas summarized and evidence in support of ideas or
evidence which supports support for ideas or
audience left with full conclusions;
conclusions or ideas; conclusions;
understanding of presenter’s • Major ideas may need to be
• May need to refine summary • Major ideas left un-clear,
position. summarized or audience is left
or final idea. audience left with no new
with vague idea to remember.
ideas.
• Relaxed, self-confident and
appropriately dressed for purpose • Nervous tension obvious
or audience; • Some tension or indifference and/or inappropriately
• Builds trust and holds attention • Quick recovery from minor apparent and possible dressed for purpose or
by direct eye contact with all mistakes; inappropriate dress for purpose audience;
Delivery parts of audience; • Appropriately dressed; or audience; • No effort to make eye
• Fluctuation in volume and • Fairly consistent use of direct • Occasional but unsustained contact with audience;
inflection help to maintain eye contact with audience; eye contact with audience; • Low volume and/or
audience interest and emphasize • Satisfactory variation of • Uneven volume with little or monotonous tone cause
key points. volume and inflection. no inflection. audience to disengage.
TOTAL