Students PowerPoint Presentations as Assessment Tool for Learning Evaluation
Students PowerPoint Presentations as Assessment Tool for Learning Evaluation

Summary/Abstract: PowerPoint presentations for evaluating students are largely considered to be a modern and effective method in the literature of specialty. We used the method during the last academic year and have found out a series of advantages and disadvantages based on a great number of students evaluated orally. The subjects evaluated study engineering, either mechanical or electrical, and the purpose was to make the students comfortable with PowerPoint presentation and make them speak English using the specific terminology. The advantages proved to be more numerous than the disadvantages in many ways both as evaluation method and as teaching method for the other students who are watching the presentations. The advantages can be divided in two categories: advantages of making or designing a PowerPoint Presentation and advantages of presenting a PowerPoint project. Students were given marks according to the adherence to the rules decided at the beginning of the project. Evaluation was done for the entire group for the elements of designing and organizing the content of the PowerPoint including the images, original drawings or pictures, sound, animation, movies, very short documentaries and others. For speaking, the assessment is done individually according to fluency and accuracy. Although there are several disadvantages, in our opinion the advantages of using PPP for evaluating students' knowledge of English both as grammar and terminology are predominant. If the students can understand the topic and like it they can work easily in groups helping each other and what is probably the most important they train for the future job that involves working as a team and depending on each other.

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