relevant

(adjective)

Not out of date; current.

Related Terms

  • timely

Examples of relevant in the following topics:

  • Establish Contact Early with Relevant External Communities

  • Demonstrate the Relevance of the Topic

    • Make the topic of your speech relevant to your audience by articulating why they should care about your chosen topic..
    • In order to improve the likelihood that the audience will walk away informed by your speech, you should make your topic relevant.
    • A relevant topic is one that is appropriate for the contemporary period.
    • Another way to consider how to make the topic of a speech relevant is to consider the audience who will hear your speech.
    • " If you feel committed to a particular topic, then begin thinking about how you can demonstrate why the topic is relevant to your audience.
  • Scoping Your Speech

    • Make sure that only the most relevant information is including in the speech, so the scope of your speech does not become too wide.
    • Scope refers to the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant.
    • The key word here is relevance; the speech should not go in so many different directions that none of those directions relate to the original purpose and thesis of the speech.
    • Everything included then must be relevant to your purpose and thesis.
    • Every piece of information in a speech should be relevant to the topic, purpose and thesis.
  • Deploying Evidence

    • Deploy accurate, relevant, and thorough evidence strategically in order to most effectively argue your point.
    • That disconnect might occur when your evidence is not actually relevant to your argument.
    • In short, keep your evidence relevant, but make sure to have more up your sleeve if needed to further prove your point.
    • Explain why speakers must consider accuracy, relevancy, and thoroughness when deploying evidence in public speaking
  • Critics of Connectivism

    • An outspoken critic of the theory, Pløn Verhagen, Professor of Educational Design at the University of Twente believes connectivism to be relevant on a curricular level as it speaks to what people should learn and the skills they should develop.
    • To be relevant at the theoretical level, connectivism should explore the processes of how people learn.
  • Preapproach

    • The preapproach is when you gather relevant information regarding the prospect in order to create a customized sales presentation.
    • The preapproach can be defined as obtaining as much relevant information as possible regarding the prospect prior to making a sales presentation.
    • A salesman's product must be relevant to his prospect.
    • Focus on important customer needs and communicate the relevant benefits to the buyer.
    • In planning the presentation, the salesperson must select the relevant parts of his knowledge base and integrate the selected parts into a unified sales message.
  • Calculating carbon footprints

    • Employees usually enjoy seeing how their efforts help reduce environmental degradation so displaying carbon emission reductions alongside other relevant data can help create motivation and a strong sense of achievement.
  • Social Networking Services

    • Twitter is useful; Facebook appears not to be so relevant to open source projects but check this with people who use it more.
  • Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT)

    • During the 1990's, a former student of Bloom's, Lorin Anderson, led a new assembly which met for the purpose of updating the taxonomy, hoping to add relevance for 21st century students and teachers.
  • Conclusion

    • Assessing student learning and evaluating performance requires much more than the traditional multiple-choice or short-answer tests, but clear learning objectives, performance standards and relevant criteria can enable teachers to use a more holistic approach and to better tailor activities to students' needs.
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