CATEGORY

Excellent

Good

Satisfactory

Needs Improvement

Organization

Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material.

Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed.

Content is logically organized for the most part.

There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.

Content

Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent.

Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good.

Includes essential or basic information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors.

Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors.

Rough Draft

Rough draft brought on due date. Student shares with peer and extensively edits based on peer feedback.

Rough draft brought on due date. Student shares with peer and peer makes edits.

Provides feedback and/or edits for peer, but own rough draft was not ready for editing.

Rough draft not ready for editing and did not participate in reviewing draft of peer.

Mechanics

No misspellings or grammatical errors.

Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors.

Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar.

Attractiveness

Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.

Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.

Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.

Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presenation content.

Oral Presentation

Interesting, well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention.

Relatively interesting, rehearsed with a fairly smooth delivery that usually holds audience attention.

Delivery not smooth, but able to able to hold audience attention most of the time.

Delivery not smooth and audience attention lost.