Speaker,

Time

Topic_

SPC 2608INFORMATIVE SPEECH EVALUATION FORM

Section,

Date

Instructor

EYECONTACT

BODYLANGUAGE

VOCALQUALITIES

VISUAL AIDS

ORGANIZATIONALPATTERNS

INFORMATIONLITTERACY

EXCELLENT3

Continuous eye contact: faces theaudience and refers to notes orslides (less than once a minute),rarely turns body to screen oraway from audience

Engaging body language: usesgestures (pointing with the hands)and expressions to enhance thepresentation; speaker looks verycomfortable and natural

Effective vocal quality: naturaldelivery with vocal variety,articulation and volume; withoutvocal fillers, awkward pauses ormispronunciations

Effective visual aids: easy to read,concise, professional, andrelevant to presentation

Effective organizational pattern:includes introduction, body andconclusion; meets needs ofaudience; and is relevant to thesituation

Effectively information literacyskills: recognizes, locates,evaluates, and uses resourcematerials

SATISFACTORY2

Sufficient eye contact: faces theaudience and refers to notes orslides (a couple of times perminute), occasionally turns body toscreen or away from audience

Neutral body language: standsfacing the audience; speaker usesbody movements and handsappropriately, but may be a little stiffor nervous

Appropriate vocal quality:conversational delivery withmoderate vocal variety, articulationand volume; with minimal vocalfillers, awkward pauses ormispronunciations

Appropriate visual aids: generallyreadable, concise, professional andrelevant to the presentation

Somewhat effective organizationalpattern: may or may not include allparts of the introduction, body andconclusion; meets needs of somemembers of the audience; andsomewhat relevant to the situation

Appropriate information literacyskills: somewhat effectivelyrecognizes, locates, evaluates, anduses resource materials

POOR1

Essentially no eye contact:rarely faces the audience refersto notes or slides continuously(glancing up only once or twiceper minute), continuously turnsbody to screen or away fromaudience

Distracting body language:speaker sways, paces orfidgets so that audience isdistracted from presentation;poor use of hands (hands inpockets, playing with artifacts,etc.).Halting vocal quality: uncleardelivery with a lack of volume,excessive rate or monotony;with vocal fillers, awkwardpauses and mispronunciations

Ineffective visual aids: difficultto read, distracting,unprofessional and/orinadequate for presentation

Ineffective organizationalpattern: missing significantparts of the introduction, body,and conclusion; does not meetthe need of most of theaudience members;questionable relevancy to thesituationIneffective information literacyskills: does not recognize theneed for supporting material,does not know how to locate orevaluate resources

STUDENTSCORE

Total Speech ScoreEvaluation

18-16Excellent

15-11Satisfactory

10-6Poor

TOTAL

April 14, 2014