Guides for Directors of Forensics

This will have various guides on how to be a more effective director of forensics. This page is in development, but here are a few starting points.

Guides for Promotion/Tenure/Renewal:

• Duties of the Director of Forensics (from the National Forensic Journal, Fall 2005)
• Debate Guidelines (approved by AFA Policy Group and NDT; published in Speaker and Gavel – Rowland and Atchison)
• Individual Events Guidelines (to be reviewed by AFA; published in Speaker and Gavel – Dreher)

Guides for Assessment:

• NFA Pedagogy Report (2010)

Guides for Running a Team:

• Building a Team (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Finding Coaching Help (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Building Relationships with Administration (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Forensics Coaches and the Law (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Publicity/Recruitment (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Practice Scheduling (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Budgeting (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Building Team Cohesion (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Preventing Coach Burnout (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)
• Building Endowments (from the National Forensic Journal, Spring 2005)

Proceedings from Developmental Conferences for Individual Events:

• 1988
• 1990
• 1997
• 2008

Hosting and Directing a Tournament:

Tabulating a Tournament:

• How to tabulate debate (from Jon Bruschke, Cal State-Fullerton). – even experienced tab room directors will learn a thing or two from this document. Word document (63 pages).
• Tabulation programs:
  • PlusTab (debate tab that uses Microsoft Excel for calculation)
  • TRIEPC (for tabbing individual events – Dr. Rich Edwards at Baylor)
  • TRPC (for tabbing debate – Dr. Rich Edwards at Baylor)
• Online and Online/Offline Tabulation and Tournament Entry
• Joy of Tournaments: Online registration; offline tabulation/scheduling. Can be networked.
• Forensics Tournament.net: Online registration; import into various tab programs. Online tab program in development.
• Tabroom.com: Online registration, online tabulation/scheduling.
• Speechwire.com: Online registration, online tabulation/scheduling.

Tournament Guides for Specific Organizations:

• IPDA (Guide to a Typical IPDA Tournament)

Video Availability (online and DVD):

• IPDA sample debate
• NFA: Contact Dan Smith, Bradley University (note – interp events can’t be sent due to fair use guidelines)
• AFA: Contact Larry Schnoor (note – interp events can’t be sent due to fair use guidelines)