Greetings!

After the simulation on January 17, the Rules and Awards Committees will meet to discuss how our staff should evaluate and reward participants at the upcoming conference.

In order to keep this meeting as short as possible, it is important that all committee participants are prepared for the meeting. There are some things we would like each of you to think about and respond to before the Jan. 17 meeting.

Here are a few of the suggestions or issues we have to discuss:

• On what criteria should we evaluate delegate performance? (e.g. delegate behaviors such as country representation, debate, parliamentary procedure, substantive knowledge, utility of caucus time, effective resolution writing, etc)
• What weight should various behaviors have relative to others (for example, is it more important to accurately represent a country or to be a rules expert?)
• What are indicators of delegate performance? (how do we know that the delegate is or is not accurately representing their country? etc...)
• How should delegate performance be assessed? E.g. all officers assess every aspect, or individual officers to assess different aspects according to their area of responsibility etc.. Should each session be individually assessed and scored and tabulated or should each assessor keep score for the duration of the conference and submit only final tallies? etc...
• What other ideas, issues, or concerns do you think ought to be addressed?...the whole process is on the table for review. Nothing is sacred. (except for the plaques which are already made).

Please email your ideas to katiemsimpson@hotmail.com and to Doug.Greathouse@sinclair.edu, so way we may begin combining them and preparing handouts. We will bring all of the suggestions we have received to the Jan. 17 meeting and post on the web site.

Please feel free to propose suggestions or raise questions whether or not you are serving on the committee--all input is welcomed!