Training & Accreditation

The National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) offers these free courses with accreditation you can add to your Tabroom.com judge profile. Each course listed below takes about 15 minutes to complete.

All Congress Judges (Scorers + Parliamentarians)

Responsibilities each round:

• Scorers each award 1-6 points (where 1=poor; 6=excellent) for each speech and hour of presiding as well as rank-order their choices of top eight (8) performing delegates -- including the student presiding officer if they're worthy -- (where 1=top choice, 2=next choice... 8=eighth choice). 

• A parliamentarian provides holistic feedback without awarding points, rank-orders all delegates in the room, in order of preference. The parliamentarian remains in the same chamber for preliminary rounds.

• All judges will be expected to type comments in electronic ballots while students are speaking. If there are connectivity issues, judges may type comments in a word processing document and copy/paste to Tabroom.