LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY ASSIGNMENT

LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY ASSIGNMENT (30 points)

For this assignment, you will present a policy proposal in the form of a brief 2-3-minute

video testimony to a relevant legislative body. For example, if the policy you propose is

national, your testimony will be addressed to Congress. If it is a proposal for a change in

state law, your testimony will be addressed to your state legislature. If it is a local school

policy change, it will be addressed to your local school board.

You will use Kaltura to record your proposal. This is available on Moodle. Make

sure you are uploading to the assignment link in Moodle. Do not upload to the class.

Refer to Grok for assistance.

Before you develop your testimony, you should:

Have a general idea about what you want in your policy proposal

Determine who your audience is

Identify legislative body

Identify Committee where your proposal will be heard

Identify who is on the committee and their probable position on the issue. (Places

to look: political party, prior votes on similar proposals, their webpages or

Facebook pages, new paper articles.)

Your video testimony should:

Begin with your name, title of your policy proposal, name of the legislative body

and committee, your assessment of how many members of the target

audience are hostile, sympathetic, apathetic, and/or experts

Clearly specify a policy proposal (Jansson, Chapter 8)

Frame the proposal in a way that is convincing to your target audience

(Jansson, Chapter 9)

NOT be longer than 2-3 minutes. I will stop grading at the 3-minute mark.

Rubric

Description Points

Covered all points of assignment

• Provided a video of proposal

• Introduction

• Explained importance of proposal

• Knowledgeable about problem and policy

• Video was between 2-3 minutes long

25

Strongly presentation skills with little errors in video 5