CSUMB Assessment Philosophy and Practice


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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

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Assignment Guides

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

Presentations

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

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

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

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

Rubrics

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

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

Rubric Guides

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