Information for Adjudicators

Adjudicators, also known as “judges,” serve the important role of providing educative feedback from which participants in WISDAA activities learn and grow. An adjudicator is not merely a critic who expects participants to meet a certain degree of standard, and certainly not an arbiter of taste or preference. An adjudicator meets students where they are, and appraises how well contestants meet the outcomes expressed on evaluation sheets. While an adjudicator will evaluate multiple contest entries in succession, they do not compare them against one another; they evaluate each entry on its own merit.