National History Day Evaluation Template printable pdf download

National History Day Evaluation Template

WEBSITE

COMMENTS

JUDGING CRITERIA

EVALUATION

• Strengths • Areas for Improvement

(Judging criteria are explained in the

Contest Rule Book)

Historical Quality (60%)

• Entry is historically accurate

• Shows analysis and interpretation

• Places topic in historical context

• Shows wide research

• Uses available primary sources

• Research is balanced

Relation to Theme (20%)

• Clearly relates topic to theme

• Demonstrates significance of topic in

history and draws conclusions

Clarity of Presentation (20%)

• Website, written material are original,

clear, appropriate, organized and

articulate

• Website has visual impact, uses

multimedia effectively and actively

involves viewer

Rules Compliance

Yes

• Maintains word limit

(1200 student-composed words)

• Maintains size limit (100 MB)

• Multimedia clips do not exceed total time

of 4 minutes

• Includes annotated bibliography and

process paper within the website

• Total word counts of website

and process paper are included on

homepage

• All visual sources and all quotes from

written sources are credited within the

website

National History Day Evaluation Template