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Professional Associations Presentation

General Instructions

Identify both the national professional association AND a regional association (i.e., Southeast, Mid-South, etc.) in your Student Affairs Concentration Area and demonstrate your knowledge of the organizations through website research. Do NOT use NSAPA or ACPA, as these are broad national professional organizations that cover all areas of student affairs.

You should obtain the following information on each organization:

• Name of organization • Website address • Name and dates of the upcoming or recent conference(s), including the focus of the

conference(s) • Benefits of organizational membership (i.e., job opportunities, professional development,

networking, etc.) • Any related publications (journals, reports, newsletters, etc.) • Membership dues information • Any other pertinent information

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation consisting of a maximum of 7 lines of text per slide (this is to prevent "information overload" on slides). Use 20-point font or larger for readability. Remember that the purpose of a PowerPoint presentation is not to use lots of text but to use bullet points and graphics to convey information.

Note: Address each of the organizations separately in the presentation beginning first with the national organization and then the regional organization. Do not address both simultaneously to aid in the clarity of the content in the presentation.

SA501 Graduate Students: Include 8-10 slides in the presentation. Graduate-level presentations should contain more content-rich information.

SAL401 Undergraduate students: Include 6-7 slides in the presentation.

Format guidelines:

• Develop the presentation to be delivered to an audience of graduate students in Student Affairs. The presentation should be creative and visually appealing (i.e., incorporating images, pictures, etc.).

• Grades will be based on the degree to which the information above is covered as well as how attractive and engaging the slides are, including the use of graphics.

• The presentation should be well organized. • Use proper grammar (i.e., correct spelling, proper sentence structure, correct

punctuation, etc.) in creating the text for the slides. Points will be deducted for each APA, grammatical, and typographical error.

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Scoring Guidelines

Points available: 100.

Component Target Acceptable Unacceptable

Content Accurate content

addressed in a cohesive presentation.

Interesting, smooth delivery that holds the

audience attention. The content is presented clearly and concisely

with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information. Information is complete

and accurate. (60 points)

Smooth delivery that holds audience attention. The content is presented

with a logical progression of ideas but supporting information is

limited, Information presented is accurate.

(40 points)

Delivery not smooth, audience attention lost.

The content lacks a clear point of view. Some of

the information may not seem to fit. Sources

used appear unreliable. Information is missing, incomplete, out of date

and/or incorrect. (20 points)

Attractiveness & Creativity: Presentation

is engaging without being overwhelmed by

text, color, or font.

Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics,

effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. The amount of information

presented in each section is appropriate.

(10 points)

Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects,

etc. to enhance to presentation. May include too much information to be

visually appealing. (5 points)

Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from

the presentation content. Amount of

content/text included in sections is distracting or

overwhelming. (0 points)

APA Format Reference and in-text citations carefully follow

APA format, with no errors. (10 points)

Reference and/or in- text citations follows APA format, with no more than 2 errors.

(5 points)

Reference list and/or in- text citations has more

than 2 APA errors. (0 points)

Writing Correct Grammar, Well-

Organized

Writing is free of all writing errors.

(10 points)

Writing involves few errors (no more than 2).

(5 points)

Writing involves more than 2 errors.

(0 points)

Peer Response Responds to 2 peers

with 1 paragraph each response that is

reflective of reviewing with interest the peers’

presentations.

Responds to two peers with 1 paragraph each; responses are thorough and detailed. Responses reflect reviewed of peer

assignments. (10 points)

Responds to two peers, but responses are not thorough and detailed. Responses may not

represent a solid understanding of the

peers’ work. (5 points)

Responses to peers are inadequate. OR Only one or no responses provided. (0 points)