Peer Evaluations and Presentations

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Peer Evaluations and Presentations

• CSSE 372, Software Project Management
• Mark Ardis, Rose-Hulman InstituteFebruary 8, 2005

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Outline

• Peer Evaluations
• Presentation Heuristics

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Peer Evaluation Dimensions

• Cooperation
• Responsibility
• Preparedness
• Supportiveness
• Integrity

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Peer Evaluation Ratings

• Excellent - far above average
• Very Good - better than average
• Satisfactory - average
• Marginal - below average
• Unsatisfactory - far below average

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Peer Exercise
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Cartoon of the Day
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Advice on Giving Presentations

• Preliminary planning
• Organization
• Delivery

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Preliminary Planning

• Audience
• What do they know?
• How many are they?
• Room
• Comfortably crowded
• Plan where you will stand

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Organization

• Hors d'oeuvre - get them excited
• Entree
• Dessert - summarize

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Delivery

• Use examples
• Use verbal punctuation
• Ask questions
• Cultivate gestures
• Make eye contact
• Walk around

• Use props
• Practice board work
• Use color
• Never read the slides
• Stand near the projected image