Scoring Rubric For The Informative Speech Project
Scoring Rubric For The Informative Speech Project
The speech is well-researched, The speech is mostly informative The speech is somewhat informative
The speech is not informative or
informative, and relevant to and relevant to the audience. The or relevant to the audience. The
relevant to the audience. The
Content and the audience. The speaker uses speaker uses mostly credible sources speaker uses limited credible
speaker uses no credible sources
research credible sources and presents a and presents a mostly clear and sources and presents a somewhat
and presents an unorganized or
clear, organized message that organized message, but may lack clear or organized message, but may
irrelevant message.
is supported by evidence. some detail or research. lack detail, research, or relevance.
The speaker uses strong eye The speaker uses limited eye The speaker uses no eye
The speaker uses good eye contact,
contact, vocal variety, and contact, vocal variety, and contact, vocal variety, or
vocal variety, and appropriate body
Delivery and appropriate body language. appropriate body language. The appropriate body language. The
language. The speech is mostly
Presentation The speech is fluent, with no speech is not fluent, with several speech is not fluent, with many
fluent, with a few distracting filler
distracting filler words or long distracting filler words or long distracting filler words or long
words or long pauses.
pauses. pauses. pauses.
Overall The speech makes a strong, The speech makes a positive The speech makes a somewhat The speech makes a poor
Criteria 4 (Excellent) 3 (Good) 2 (Fair) 1 (Poor)