Emirates Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Standardizing Presentation Skills

This series of workshops focus on aligning participants to the descriptors required for evaluating academic presentations for students throughout UAEU. Standard communication skills including communicative fluency, accuracy, and organization will be analyzed in the initial workshop. The descriptors will also be used to assess students presentation skills.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will view and assess a variety of presentations using the Communications Skills Speaking and Presentation rubric, which has been developed within UAEU and is based on criteria from the Association of American Colleges and Universities Oral Communication Value Rubric.

Participants will work in small and large discussion groups to compare ratings on a variety of presentations, and so become aligned with the descriptors contained within the rubric.

Outcomes

• Acquire an awareness of the value of applying a rubric to presentation skills.
• Identity relevant presentation skills.
• Recognize the scale used to assess each skill.
• Apply rubric descriptors to UAEU student presentations.
• Offer and respond to feedback from colleagues when applying the rubric.

Presenters

• Susan Boylan

University College Instructor Susan Boylan has been an international educator for over thirty years working for tertiary institutions in Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. She has also taught for the British Council in Tunisia and Portugal, and Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. Besides academic English instruction, her main field of interest in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages is assessment and evaluation with a focus on exam rubrics, descriptors, and specification documents.

• Garry Newnham

University College Instructor Garry Newnham started his teaching career in the United Kingdom and has extensive international teaching experience in tertiary institutions in Italy, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates. Garry s main areas of interest are written genres and in particular, communication skills. Since 2014, Garry has also served in educational management as the Lead Teacher for the Communications Skills Course for Engineering.

Registration

• Session 1: Thursday Feb. 14, 2019 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)
• Session 2: Thursday Feb. 21, 2019 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)
• Session 3: Thursday Feb. 28, 2019 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)
• Session 4: Thursday Mar. 7, 2019 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

Hands-out

• Workshop slides
• Presentation Rubric
• Presentation Rubric Extract