EMCC General Education Communication Ability VOCAL DELIVERY RUBRIC for (Paralanguage) of Speeches, Presentations & Performances 4 3 2 1 0 Question Excelling Proficient Developing Emerging Not Evident 8. Language Speaker uses Speaker uses Language is Language is Language Usage expressive, grammatically sometimes often impedes grammatically correct & grammatically grammatically comprehension correct, & unbiased incorrect, incorrect, by the unbiased language biased, or biased, or audience language appropriate to inappropriate inappropriate appropriate to audience to audience to audience audience Rate Speaker Speaker mostly Speaks too Speaks too Pace never 9. consistently uses speaks at a pace fast or slow, fast or too varies keeping a varied, but where message making it slow, or used the audience appropriate pace is understood, difficult for pauses from attending where message is and uses pauses audience to ineffectively, so to the message understood by the effectively understand that audience audience in its entire cannot entirety, and uses message, understand the pauses effectively and/or does message not use pauses effectively 10. Volume and Speaker is easily Speaker is heard Volume and Volume and Volume and Pitch heard throughout throughout and pitch are too pitch make it pitch make it and varies varies volume loud or too so the impossible to volume and pitch and pitch to soft and audience hear the to effectively effectively message cannot fully message extend the extend the cannot be hear the message message easily message understood 11. Articulation Speaker forms all Speaker has 1 or Articulation Articulation Articulation sounds correctly, 2 articulation errors slightly errors impede errors prevent facilitating errors that do not detract from understanding the audience meaningfulness greatly impact the message of the message from of the message the understanding meaningfulness the message. of the message Pronunciation 12. Speaker correctly Speaker had 1 or Speaker had More than 3 Pronunciation pronounces all 2 pronunciation 1 to 3 pronunciation errors prevents words errors that may errors greatly the audience distract errors that distract the from distract audience understanding NOTE: If any evaluation criteria is not relevant to the speech presentation or performance (for example, a presentation may not include any Audio/Visual Multi-Media Aid), please score that criterion with an “N”.
EMCC General Education Communication Ability RUBRIC for VOCAL DELIVERY (Paralanguage) of Speeches, Presentations & Performances Question 4 Excelling 3 Proficient 2 Developing 1 Emerging 0 Not Evident 8. Language Usage Speaker uses expressive, grammatically correct, & unbiased language appropriate to audience Speaker uses grammatically correct & unbiased language appropriate to audience Language is sometimes grammatically incorrect, biased, or inappropriate to audience Language is often grammatically incorrect, biased, or inappropriate to audience Language impedes comprehension by the audience 9. Rate Speaker consistently uses a varied, but appropriate pace where message is understood by the audience in its entirety, and uses pauses effectively Speaker mostly speaks at a pace where message is understood, and uses pauses effectively Speaks too fast or slow, making it difficult for audience to understand entire message, and/or does not use pauses effectively Speaks too fast or too slow, or used pauses ineffectively, so that audience cannot understand the message Pace never varies keeping the audience from attending to the message 10. Volume and Pitch Speaker is easily heard throughout and varies volume and pitch to effectively extend the message Speaker is heard throughout and varies volume and pitch to effectively extend the message Volume and pitch are too loud or too soft and message cannot be easily understood Volume and pitch make it so the audience cannot fully hear the message Volume and pitch make it impossible to hear the message 11. Articulation Speaker forms all sounds correctly, facilitating meaningfulness of the message Speaker has 1 or 2 articulation errors that do not greatly impact the meaningfulness of the message Articulation errors slightly detract from the message Articulation errors impede understanding of the message Articulation errors prevent the audience from understanding the message. 12. Pronunciation Speaker correctly pronounces all words Speaker had 1 or 2 pronunciation errors that may distract Speaker had 1 to 3 errors that distract More than 3 pronunciation errors greatly distract the audience Pronunciation errors prevents the audience from understanding NOTE: If any evaluation criteria is not relevant to the speech presentation or performance (for example, a presentation may not include any Audio/Visual Multi-Media Aid), please score that criterion with an “N”.
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