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ULO 1 - Oral Communication

CSUMB Assessment Philosophy and Practice

How to Use

Development, Standards, and Grading

Oral communication threshold concepts

• Oral communication connects speakers and listeners through embodied experiences

Audience awareness during delivery
Audience engagement
Uses space and time
Co-creation of experience
The experience is emotional as well as cognitive

• A speech is not just a paper on legs

Assesses audience
Time is limited and only moves forward
Repetition is more necessary and overt than in writing
Preparation (to intimately know content)
Use of vocabulary (spoken versus written)

• Oral communication speaks to situations & audiences through recognizable forms or genres

Situations repeat, resulting in genres
Credibility/trust is contextual and constructed
Medium is an element of genre

• Dialogue is an ongoing process of co-creating knowledge

True dialogue involves really speaking and listening, which is a meaning-making activity
Dissonance can be good/productIve

Assignment Guides Assignment Guides

Oral Communication, Critical Thinking, and Information Literacy Assignment Guide, California State University, Monterey Bay

Presentations Presentations

APA: Citing Your Sources in Oral Presentations, Sarah Dahlen and Shar Gregg

Chicago: Citing Your Sources in Oral Presentations, Sarah Dahlen and Shar Gregg

CSE: Citing Your Sources in Oral Presentations, Sarah Dahlen and Shar Gregg

MLA: Citing Your Sources in Oral Presentations, Sarah Dahlen and Shar Gregg

Rubrics Rubrics

Oral Communication, Critical Thinking, and Information Literacy Integrated Rubric, California State University, Monterey Bay

Oral Communication Undergraduate Learning Outcome Rubric, California State University, Monterey Bay

Rubric Guides Rubric Guides

Oral Communication, Critical Thinking, Information Literacy Integrated Rubric Guide, California State University, Monterey Bay