An Authentic Assessment

This is an example of a formative authentic assessment from  a 'Presentation Skills' Course.

It is an online assessment of a session on 'PowerPoint'. Following completion of the session, learners will be asked to produce a short autoplay PowerPoint presentation, demonstrating appropriate use of graphics, with an accompanying voice narrative. They will upload it to Youtube (optional – privacy mode) share the link with their peers and invite feedback.

Activity Brief: 

Using no more than 10 slides, you will create a Power|Point presentation to identify the following:

What you consider to be best practice in terms of planning PowerPoint presentations, formatting and presentation style

Pitfalls to avoid when creating a PowerPoint presentation

Types of learning and information sharing scenarios that can be enhanced through PowerPoint

How you will implement PowerPoint in the future, identifying what you will do differently as a result of the programme.

Share your link and invite your colleagues to provide feedback.

Assessment scores:

Criteria	0%	-       33%	-       66%	-       100%
Organisation	Badly organised, impossible to follow	Some organisation, still jumps about	Clear organisation following a linear path	Clear organisation in a logical sequence with additional creativity
Powerpoint visuals	No graphics or Irrelevant, or unclear	Some clear graphics not  relevant	Clear, supporting graphics	Clear supporting graphics, animated or containing hyperlinks
Delivery	Incoherent mumbling	Clear narrative, not supporting slides	Clear narrative, supporting slides	Clear narrative, supporting the slides and asking rhetorical questions to include viewer
Demonstration of learning	No demonstration of learning	Generalised learning points	Specific learning points identified and means of implementing them in future	Specific learning points identified and identification of transferability of learning points to additional tasks and job roles.