Classroom Debate Rubric: Science and Technology
Criteria 8 points
All statements, body
language, and
Respect for responses were
Other Team respectful and were
inappropriate language
All information
presented in this
Information debate was clear,
accurate and thorough
All counter-arguments
were accurate, relevant
Rebuttal and strong
Every major point was
well supported with
Use of several relevant facts,
Facts/Statistics statistics and/or
examples
All arguments were
clearly tied to an idea
Organization (premise) and organized
in a tight, logical fashion
The team clearly
understood the topic in
Understanding depth and presented
of Topic their information
forcefully and
convincingly
6 points 4 points 2 points
Statements and Most statements and Statements, responses and/or body language were
responses were responses were borderline appropriate. Some sarcastic remarks
respectful and used respectful and in
appropriate language, appropriate language,
but once or twice body but there was one
language was not sarcastic remark
Most information Most information Some information was accurate, but there were some
presented in this debate presented in the debate minor inaccuracies
was clear, accurate and was clear and accurate,
but was not usually
thorough thorough
Most counter- Most counter- Some counter arguments were weak and irrelevant
arguments were arguments were
accurate, relevant, and accurate and relevant,
strong
but several were weak
Every major point was Every major point was Some points were supported well, others were not
adequately supported supported with facts,
with relevant facts, statistics and/or
statistics and/or examples, but the
examples relevance of some was
questionable
Most arguments were Most arguments were Most arguments were clearly tied to an idea (premise) and
clearly tied to an idea clearly tied to an idea organized in a tight, logical fashion
(premise) and (premise) and
organized in a tight, organized in a tight,
logical fashion logical fashion
The team clearly The team seemed to The team seemed to understand the main points of the
understood the topic in understand the main topic, but didnt present with ease
depth and presented points of the topic and
their information with
presented those with
ease
ease
Total Points:
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