The document provides a rubric for evaluating student participation and performance in a seminar discussion on romantic literature. It rates students as seminar masters, standards, novices, or not ready for a seminar based on their conduct, speaking skills, preparation, presentation, outline, and organization. A seminar master demonstrates respect, patience, and involvement of others, while a novice may be impatient or argumentative and not contribute effectively to discussion.

1. Kennedy Presenting Group Rubric for Romantic Seminar Discussions
Seminar Master Seminar Standard Seminar Novice Not Ready for a
Seminar
Demonstrates respect for Generally shows Participates verbally Displays little/no
learning process; has composure but may but shows impatience respect for the
patience with differing display impatience with seminar process; seminar process;
opinions and complexity; during discussion; not may make insightful argumentative; takes
asks peers for patient with peers; comments but is either advantage of or
clarification; attempts to makes comments but too forceful or too shy causes distractions;
Conduct
involve others; moves does not encourage and does not contribute uses inappropriate
forward into new others to participate; to the progress of language; challenges
concepts; not disruptive attempts to move seminar; tends to individuals rather than
discussion forward; debate not discuss; may speaking to ideas;
shows a desire to be unfocused does not contribute to
contribute responsibly discussion
Speaks to all participants; Addresses majority of Speaks directly to Reluctant to speak;
avoids talking too much; comments to peers; leader; speaks too cannot be heard;
can be heard by all does not try to say softly and needs to be shows no desire to
“everything” while reminded; routinely contribute verbally
Speaking speaking;; tries to lapses into slang or
speak louder when substandard usage;
asked to do so speaks only with
prompting and has no
sustainable point
Understands major Demonstrates Confused about key Clearly unprepared;
concepts; is fully knowledge of facts; concepts; may not has no notes, not
Preparation prepared to lead the prepared to contribute contribute fully to prepared to lead a
discussion; prepared with leading the discussion. discussion.
notes and questions
Student’s visual aid Student uses
Student's visual aid Student's visual aids rarely supports the superfluous visual
explains and reinforces relates to the presentation. aids or no visual aids.
Presentation
the presentation. presentation.
Student creates an outline Student creates an Student creates an Student creates an
that provides though outline that provides outline that does not outline that is lacking
provoking discussion discussion questions include all discussion discussion questions
Outline
questions along with fully with answers. questions or answers and answers.
conclusive answers. provided are not
complete
Audience cannot
Student presents
Student presents understand
information in logical Audience has difficulty
information in logical, presentation because
sequence which following presentation
Organization interesting sequence there is no sequence
audience can follow. because student jumps
which audience can of information.
around.
follow.