Rubric for Assessing Students' Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
Motivation:
Informal feedback from employers and graduate schools reported that CS graduates had strong technical and intellectual skills but had weak public speaking and presentation skills.
Goal:
Our goal was to ensure that all CS graduates have acquired a sufficient degree of proficiency in oral and visual presentation skills.
Methods/Tools:
The faculty collectively developed a Speaking Review Rubric. The rubric articulates the various skills and competencies that students must develop to pass the public speaking and presentation requirement.
Implementation:
A panel of faculty and students use the Speaking Review Form to assess performance and provide feedback to the students. Students are allowed to repeat the process until they receive a passing grade. To pass, at least two faculty and one student must give an evaluation of "good" or better.
Participants:
All graduate students in the program are required to design and give a presentation of their work to a group of faculty and students.
Impact/Results:
The department will continue to track employer feedback in informal ways to ascertain effectiveness of the tool.
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