Purpose: to persuade people to volunteer for roadside clean-ups

Question

Structure and Organization:

Each slide shows a photo of trash along a roadside. This got repetitious.
Bulleted lists organize the information.
Content:

Slides include the types of trash often found along roadsides, and the last slide totals the weight of all the trash collected along roadsides last year.
The background music is distracting and detracts from the information.
Delivery:

The presentation is free from technical glitches.
The presentation maintains my attention.
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

A student took these notes during and after a digital presentation. Using these notes, which answer choice do you think best evaluates the presentation’s effectiveness?

(1 point)
Responses

The digital presentation does a remarkable job of conveying the importance of volunteers to roadside clean-ups. It provides useful information about how much and what kinds of trash appear along roadsides, shows what the roadsides look like before they are cleaned up, and smoothly transitions between the slides.
The digital presentation does a remarkable job of conveying the importance of volunteers to roadside clean-ups. It provides useful information about how much and what kinds of trash appear along roadsides, shows what the roadsides look like before they are cleaned up, and smoothly transitions between the slides.

The digital presentation does an inadequate job of either detailing the problem of roadside pollution or persuading volunteers to help clean it up. The photos only show trash along the roadsides, the background music is too distracting to focus on the message, and the information about the types of trash found along roadsides and its overall weight is irrelevant.
The digital presentation does an inadequate job of either detailing the problem of roadside pollution or persuading volunteers to help clean it up. The photos only show trash along the roadsides, the background music is too distracting to focus on the message, and the information about the types of trash found along roadsides and its overall weight is irrelevant.

The digital presentation conveys the information in an engaging way, such as by providing photos of trash along roadsides and playing music in the background. However, a greater variety of photos would improve the presentation by adding interest and making it seem less repetitious.
The digital presentation conveys the information in an engaging way, such as by providing photos of trash along roadsides and playing music in the background. However, a greater variety of photos would improve the presentation by adding interest and making it seem less repetitious.

The digital presentation does a good job of detailing the problem with roadside pollution, but it isn’t as effective when presenting the solution. Photos comparing what areas looked like before and after clean-ups would do a better job of highlighting the difference that volunteers make, and eliminating the background music would make it easier to focus on the message.
The digital presentation does a good job of detailing the problem with roadside pollution, but it isn’t as effective when presenting the solution. Photos comparing what areas looked like before and after clean-ups would do a better job of highlighting the difference that volunteers make, and eliminating the background music would make it easier to focus on the message.
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Answer 1

The best evaluation of the presentation's effectiveness, based on the student's notes, is:

The digital presentation does an inadequate job of either detailing the problem of roadside pollution or persuading volunteers to help clean it up. The photos only show trash along the roadsides, the background music is too distracting to focus on the message, and the information about the types of trash found along roadsides and its overall weight is irrelevant.

This response accurately reflects the issues noted in the presentation, such as the repetitiveness of the photos, the distracting background music, and the lack of engagement to persuade volunteers effectively.