Assertion-Evidence Slide Design for Better Learning Outcomes

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From the Assertion-Evidence Approach website: “In the assertion-evidence (AE) approach, you build your talk on messages (not topics) to tell a coherent and compelling story about your work. Those messages you then support  with visual evidence (not bullet lists). In addition, you engage the audience by fashioning sentences on the spot, but after practice.”

Research

• Slide Structure Can Influence the Presenter’s Understanding of the Presentation’s Content (International Journal of Engineering Education, 2016)
• How the Design of Presentation Slides Affects Audience Comprehension (International Journal of Engineering Education, 2013)

Resources

• Assertion-evidence Slide Template Page
• Slide Title Guidelines: Use Assertions, Not Topics
• Carnegie Mellon's Presentation Slides on Assertion Evidence Slides
• Effective PowerPoint Design with Assertion Evidence Framework

Images from and more assertion-evidence resources at the Assertion Evidence website. Assertion examples in image include “Our screening matrix narrowed the choice to four concepts” and “Temperatures in urban centers are often much warmer than in surrounding rural areas.”

Written and designed by Christina Moore, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Oakland University. Others may share and adapt under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC.

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