Improving Presentation Skills through Clarifying the Description of the Rubric and Sharing it:

Focusing on the Description in the Self-evaluation Sheet by the Learners

Abstract

In a class for short-term foreign students, I sought to improve presentation skills by clarifying the rubric’s description and by sharing the rubric between teachers and learners. In their self-evaluations, learners consistently demonstrated their awareness of measures to improve their own performance. Accordingly, it was suggested that clarifying and sharing the rubric would encourage learners to engage in autonomous effort that directly reflected specified measures for improvement.