Interpersonal Communication Skills Rubric

Health Education Standard 5
Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Characteristics of Student Work
This skill category evaluates students' ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health behaviors. The quality of student responses may vary from low, providing little or no evidence of the ability to convey or exchange information, ideas, or beliefs about health, to high, demonstrating the use of appropriate communication techniques to exchange information effectively.

Skill Cues


  • demonstrates interactions among individuals
  • message tactics and strategies
    • clear, organized ideas or beliefs
    • use of "I" message
    • tone-respectful vs. aggressive and confrontational
    • body language
  • demonstrates refusals
    • clear "no" statement
    • walk away
    • provide a reason
    • delay, change the subject
    • repeat refusal
    • provide an excuse
    • put it off
Generic Skills Rubric
4
The response shows evidence of the ability to apply health skills; the response is complete and shows proficiency in the skill.
3
The response shows evidence of the ability to apply health skills; the response is mostly complete but may not be fully proficient.
2
The response shows some evidence of the ability to apply health skills; the response may have inaccuracies or be incomplete.
1
The response shows little or no evidence of the ability to apply health skills.