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Slide Presentation Rubric (Grades 6-12)
This scores the deck itself, and pairs with the oral presentation rubric when students also present live. The design criterion is not about decoration: it scores whether a reader in the back row can get the content from the slides, which is the whole job of a slide.
- Grades 6-12
- Subject Cross-curricular
- 100 points
- 5 criteria
- Free to copy, print and adapt
| Criterion | Exceeds | Meets | Approaching | Beginning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content Accuracy and Depth30 points | 27-30 ptsInformation is accurate, covers every required element of the topic, and goes beyond the first page of search results with specifics an interested reader would not already know. | 21-26 ptsAccurate coverage of the required content at an appropriate depth for the assignment. | 15-20 ptsCoverage has gaps or a factual error, or slides stay at the level of general statements about the topic. | 0-14 ptsContent is thin, off topic, or wrong in ways that misinform the audience. |
| Design and Readability25 points | 23-25 ptsSlides hold one idea each in readable type, text stays under roughly six lines a slide, and images are sharp, relevant, and labeled where needed. | 18-22 ptsSlides are readable and consistent, with occasional crowding or a decorative image that adds nothing. | 13-17 ptsParagraphs pasted onto slides, text too small to read from the back, or backgrounds that fight the text. | 0-12 ptsSlides are walls of text or so sparse the content is missing, with formatting that changes every slide. |
| Organization and Flow20 points | 18-20 ptsA title slide, a preview of the sections, a logical order the audience can follow, and a closing slide that lands the main point. | 14-17 ptsLogical order with clear section breaks from the first slide to the last. | 10-13 ptsSlides could be shuffled without anyone noticing, or the deck ends abruptly with no closing. | 0-9 ptsNo discernible order to the slides. |
| Mechanics15 points | 14-15 ptsSpelling and grammar are clean across every slide, including titles, captions, and chart labels. | 11-13 ptsOne or two small errors in the whole deck. | 8-10 ptsErrors on several slides, or title-case and punctuation drift slide to slide. | 0-7 ptsErrors on most slides, prominent enough to distract the audience. |
| Sources and Media Credits10 points | 9-10 ptsFacts, statistics, and images are credited on a sources slide in the assigned format, and image credits appear where required. | 7-8 ptsA sources slide lists where the information came from, with minor format issues. | 5-6 ptsSources are listed only as search engine names or bare URLs. | 0-4 ptsNo sources anywhere in the deck. |
Total: 100 points across 5 criteria.
How to use it
- Set a slide count range, not a minimum alone; the padding that a minimum invites is what the design criterion then has to punish.
- Review the deck in the presenter's absence first; if it makes sense alone, criterion two and three are satisfied before the talk begins.
- Pair with the oral presentation rubric and grade the deck the day before students present, so slide fixes can still happen.
What students most often get wrong
- Writing the speech on the slides and reading it, which loses points here and in the live delivery.
- Spending the work session on themes and transitions before the content exists.
- Screenshots of unreadable charts pasted at full size instead of rebuilding the one number that matters.
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