Development of a PowerPoint Rubric for Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Although Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students have used rubrics to guide assignments, few have created PowerPoint slide decks for professional presentations. Students might benefit from a rubric that standardizes PowerPoint presentations on final DNP projects. Objective: The objective of the study is to conduct a quality improvement project to evaluate a literature-based rubric guiding students’ PowerPoint presentations and the grading of final projects. Methods: Two faculty independently scored PowerPoint slides structuring final DNP project presentations for the literature-based rubric. They revised the rubric based on ratings and comments. Nine content experts rated the relevance of the revised rubric’s criteria. Results: Three criteria differed at a statistically different level on the literature-based rubric’s ratings. Interrater reliability was low. The rubric criteria were revised. Nine experts’ ratings showed that the criteria on the revised rubric were relevant; their comments stimulated revisions. The Survey Content Validity Average was 0.88, suggesting the relevance of criteria. Conclusions: The rubric requires additional revisions. Posting the revised rubric in the student resource course of the learning management system might assist students to construct PowerPoint presentations in DNP courses and for professional presentations. Implications for Nursing: The rubric was shared with DNP Project Teams. Faculty will continue to evaluate the quality of the students’ presentations.