Trial Development of a Peer Evaluation System of Presentation Skills Using Web

Abstract

Presentation skills have recently become essential in many business situations, and a number of tertiary educational institutes have introduced presentation activities into classes. Feedback from the audience is very important in the development of individual presentation skills, but a speaker and an audience do not always have enough time available to watch and evaluate the presentation. Consequently, we have developed a system to improve presentation skills by using the Web. Presentation videos uploaded to the Web site enable peer evaluation, and analysis of video sound can evaluate speech rate and pause information. In this system, a user can not only see the evaluation or the reviews of his/her presentation by other users and features of his/her speech, but can also realize the process of improvement of his/her presentation skills by repeated practice or modification. Enhanced presentation skills are developed because the learner can practice through understanding the variations in the evaluation of his/her presentation in graphic form. We have assumed that the learner is a student who is practicing for a presentation of his/her study, and the reviewers are peers or his/her adviser.