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Journal Club Presentation - updated 2019 Journal Club Presentation Rubric Code: BXC6C96 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Engineering Type: Presentation Grade Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate

Journal Club Presentation Descriptions
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Content
Knowledge	Poor Student does not have grasp of information, exhibited by more than one major gap in understanding.	Fair Student demonstrates limited knowledge of material with at least one major gap in understanding.	Good Student demonstrates adequate knowledge of material with only minor gaps in understanding.	Excellent Student demonstrates full knowledge by presenting the materials accurately.
Critique	Poor No critical analysis of the article.	Fair Student present strengths and weaknesses of the article that are not well thought or with at least one major gap in understanding.	Good Student presents strengths and weaknesses of the article with some minor gaps in understanding.	Excellent Student accurately presents strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Discussion	Poor Student cannot answer questions about subject.	Fair Student is able to answer only rudimentary questions.	Good Student is able to answer questions without elaboration.	Excellent Student addresses all class questions with explanations and elaboration.
Organization	Poor Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information.	Fair Audience has difficult following presentation because student jumps around.	Good Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow.	Excellent Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow.
Mechanics	Poor Poor designed / ineffective slides (text heavy) or has four or more spelling and/or grammatical errors.	Fair Significant extraneous (not discussed) or missing important information. Presentation has three or less misspellings and/or grammatical errors.	Good Few extraneous or missing information on slides and has no more than two misspellings and/or grammatical errors.	Excellent Effectively designed slides with no misspellings or grammatical errors.
Delivery
Verbal skills	Poor Student's voice is low or monotonous tone which causes audience to disengage. Presentation is delivered too fast to comprehend or too slow/monotonous to maintain audience interest.	Fair Student's voice is low so that not some members of audience have difficulty hearing presentation, or speaks in uneven volume with little or no inflection.	Good Student's voice is clear so that most can hear; speaks with satisfactory variation of volume and inflection.	Excellent Student uses a clear voice and pace so that all audience members can hear and understand presentation.
Non-verbal skills	Poor No eye contact with audience or entire report is read from notes. No movement or descriptive gestures.	Fair Displayed minimal eye contact with audience or mostly read from the notes. Very little movement or descriptive gestures.	Good Consistent use of direct eye contact with audience, but still returns to notes. Made movements or gestures that enhances articulation.	Excellent Holds attention of entire audience with the use of direct eye contact, seldom looking at notes. Movements seem fluid and help the audience visualize.
Poise	Poor Tension and nervousness is obvious.	Fair Displays mild tension, has troubled recovering from mistakes.	Good Student is mostly relaxed.	Excellent Student displays relaxed, self-confident nature about self.
Enthusiasm	Poor No interest in topic presented.	Fair Shows little interest in the topic.	Good Occasionally exhibits enthusiasm during presentation.	Excellent Demonstrates enthusiasm during presentation.
Time	Poor Presentation is <15 mins or >25 mins.	Fair Presentation within time frame with less than 2 minutes left for discussion.	Good Presentation within time frame with at least 2 minutes left for discussion.	Excellent Presentation within time frame with at least 4 minutes left for discussion.

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Engineering

Types:

Presentation

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