Scoring Rubric for Video Presentations
To be successful, submissions must achieve a 65% score in Section A and in Section B. Submissions that achieve an ‘Insufficient’ score in any
category
will receive a fail.
Section A: Content, Relevance, Educational Value
Grade Excellent Good Satisfactory Insufficient Points
Points Awarded 3 points 2 points 1 points 0 points
The video offers a The video offers an The video fails to The video does not /3
Content and concise summary of the adequate summary of the adequately summarise the summarise the findings or
Messages findings and highlights the findings and some of the findings or highlights of highlights of the study. The
key points of the study. The highlights of the study. the study. The objectives objectives are not given and
objectives of the study are Majority of the study are not clear and methods methods are lacking. Many
clear and methods objectives and methods are are vague. Some conclusions lack supporting
adequately described. given. There is adequate conclusions lack evidence.
Conclusions are evidence to support the supporting evidence.
supported by strong evidence. conclusions.
The video The video The relevance of The video fails to /3
Relevance demonstrates the relevance adequately demonstrates the the research to a wide demonstrate the relevance of
of the research to a wide the relevance of the research to a audience is not clear. the research to a wide the
audience. wide audience.
the audience.
The video has The video offers The video offers The video offers no /3
Educational educational value to both the some educational value to moderate educational value to educational value.
Value presenter’s peers and a wider, both the presenter’s peers and both the presenter’s peers
general audience. a wider, general and a wider,
audience. general audience.
Section B: Organization, and Technical and Creative Ability
Grade Excellent Good Satisfactory Insufficient Points
Points Awarded 3 points 2 points 1 points 0 points
The video has a clear The video has some structure The video lacks structure The video has no structure or /3
Organization beginning, middle and end that which features an introduction, with the appropriate organisation.
features an introduction, methods, results and sections ill-defined. Findings and their relevance are
methods, results and conclusion conclusion. Majority of findings and not given.
and is easy to follow. The majority of findings and their relevance are not
The main findings and their their relevance are given. given.
relevance are expressed well.
English is Occasional Inexcusable use of Very poor use of /3
Grammar and grammatically correct. incorrect English grammar English grammar. Many of English grammar. Scientific
Vocabulary Scientific terms or acronyms used. Some of the scientific the scientific terms or terms or acronyms are not
are clearly defined or replaced terms or acronyms are not acronyms are not adequately defined.
with more familiar adequately defined. defined.
terms.
Narration is clear, Narration is mostly Narration is mostly Narration is /3
Delivery and relaxed, comprehensible, has a clear, relaxed, comprehensible, unclear, stressed, not very unclear, stressed,
Narration good pace and consistent in has a reasonable pace and understandable, has a incomprehensible, variable pace
style throughout. The speech is mostly consistent in style variable pace and is often and is inconsistent in style
expressive and offers a cadence throughout. The speech is inconsistent in style. The throughout. The speech is not
that encourages adequately expressive. speech is not very expressive.
listening. expressive and the cadence
deters
listening.
Section B: Organization, and Technical and Creative Ability
Excellent Good Satisfactory Insufficient Points
The story line is The story line is The story line lacks The story line is /3
Technical effectively expressed expressed adequately through expression through hard to follow due to
Production and through video footage, video footage, sound, and inadequate use of video insufficient use of video
Editing sound, and special effects special effects and overall footage, sound, and special footage, sound, and special
and is overall appealing. offers some appeal. The effects and overall offers effects and overall is
Scenes flow smoothly from majority of scenes flow little appeal. Many of the confusing. There are many
one to the other without smoothly from one to the scenes fail to flow smoothly unnatural breaks between
empty space. other and there is little empty from one to the other and scenes and empty spaces.
space. there are many empty
spaces.
Video footage and Video footage and Video footage and The quality of the /3
Audio and Sound effects are improved effects are somewhat effects are hampered by audio and sound are
through consistently high improved through mostly inconsistent quality sound consistently poor and
quality sound and audio, consistent, mostly high quality and audio, that together degrades the quality of the
and together complement sound and audio. distract the viewer from the video footage and effects.
the storyline. storyline. The viewer is consistently
distracted.
Graphics, Graphics, Graphics, Graphics, /3
Visuals and animation and other visuals animation and other visuals animation and other visuals animation and other
Graphics are effectively used to are generally helpful for are generally unhelpful for visuals are ineffectively
express the purpose and expressing the purpose and expressing the purpose and used to express the purpose
findings of the study and findings of the study and often findings of the study, and and findings of the study,
complement the audio. complement the fail to complement the add confusion and are
audio. audio. more distracting
than helpful.
Section B: Organization, and Technical and Creative Ability
Excellent Good Satisfactory Insufficient Points
The quality and The quality and The quality and The quality and /3
Video Quality resolution of the video are resolution of the majority of resolution of the video resolution of the video are
and Camera consistently high. Stills and video is high. Stills and video are consistently low. inadequate for presentation.
Techniques video footage are in focus and footage are mostly in focus Stills and video footage Stills and video footage are
effectively composed. The and well composed. are often not in focus mostly not in focus and
movement of the camera is Most of the movement of the and ineffectively poorly composed. The
smooth. camera is smooth. composed. The movement of the camera is
movement of the distracting.
camera is often wobbly.
Creativity The visual and For the most part, For the most part, The visual and /3
audio content of the video are the visual and audio content of the visual and audio audio content of the video
creatively used to effectively the video are creatively used content of the video are are not creatively used and
express the purpose, findings to express the purpose, not creatively used, often fail to express the purpose,
and conclusions of the findings and conclusions of distracting the viewer from findings and conclusions of
study. the study. the main messages of the study.
the study.
