Poster presentations: a tool for evaluating nursing students

Developing effective means to evaluate students taking undergraduate nursing research and stimulating interest in a course that is typically viewed by nursing majors as "irrelevant" is challenging and problematic. Traditional examinations and proposal assignments do not inspire undergraduate nursing students to appreciate research. The author outlines the steps taken to design and use poster presentations to evaluate students' progress and offers recommendations for adapting this innovative evaluation tool to clinical content [corrected].