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Criteria
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Insufficient: fails to meet academic requirements |
Satisfactory: meets academic requirements |
Excellent: belongs to the top 10%* |
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Performing Research
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Research: Insufficient
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Research: Satisfactory
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Research: Excellent
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| Design research plan / experiments |
Executes plans devised by supervisor only
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Proposes new valid experiments based on previous results
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Proposes many new, relevant experiments (with proper controls)
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Has creative ideas
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“Owns” the project, has original, creative ideas
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| Data analysis and interpretation |
Depends on supervisor for correct interpretation of results
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Provides correct analysis interpretation of results at later stages of the project
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Provides correct analysis and interpretation of results from the start of the project
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Invalid statistical analysis
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Statistical analysis correct
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Recognizes implications
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| Discussing research outcomes (own results and those of others) |
Hardly participates in discussions
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Participates in discussions
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Is critical and occasionally leading during discussions
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Fails to place research into perspective
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Discussion in the light of (recent) literature
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Stays on top of recent literature
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Practical skills
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Practical: Insufficient
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Practical: Satisfactory
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Practical: Excellent
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| Technical skills |
Fails to master technical/lab skills
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Masters required technical/lab skills
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Has excellent technical skills
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Fails to apply techniques independently
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Applies techniques independently |
Finds and masters new technical approach, improves existing procedures
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| Efficiency |
Waiting times in protocols are spent inefficiently
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Uses waiting times for preparing buffers, reading etc.
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Runs parallel experiments to use time efficiently and effectively
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| Organization lab journal /log/work records |
Badly organized
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Well organized
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Required information is missing
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All required information is available
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Repetition of experiments based on
information provided easily possible |
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| Organization working place use of protocols/ instructions / application safety regulations |
Workplace is a mess
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Tidies workplace regularly
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Workplace is always clean
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Fails to clean equipment after use
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Cleans equipment after use
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Equipment is always clean
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Does not follow guidelines and protocols
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Follows guidelines and protocols
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Suggests improvements for protocols
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Professional attitude
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Professional attitude: Insufficient
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Professional attitude: Satisfactory
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Professional attitude: Excellent
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| Initiative, independence, creativity, handling feedback |
Many feedback sessions are required
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Regular feedback sessions were needed
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The amount of feedback needed was minimal
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Relies on supervisor’s instructions only
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Takes initiative (initially) after stimulation |
Consults experts outside the group in consultation with supervisor, designs large parts of the project
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Finds relevant new literature
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Minimal improvement based on feedback
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Feedback led to reasonable improvement |
Response to feedback yielded excellent improvements
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| Critical attitude |
• Critical attitude is absent
• Self-reflection is absent |
Shows self-reflection and has critical attitude towards (published) research
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Critical attitude is based on intellectual depth and profundity
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| Integrity, Conscientiousness |
Data manipulated or left out**
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Accurate, reliable and trustworthy, shows awareness of confidentiality of information
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| Perseverance, Dedication |
Loses motivation when experiments / research fail(s)
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Repeats experiment until satisfactory result is obtained
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Perseveres, but knows when to stop
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| Communication with colleagues |
Thinks he/she is the only worker in the lab
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• Takes (needs of) colleagues into account
• Communicates with colleagues, e.g. to share equipment |
• Knows when to ask questions
• Accepts, communicates and learns from own failures |
| Timelyness |
Fails to meet deadlines
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Meets most deadlines
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Sets own deadlines and adheres to them
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Fails to keep appointments
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Keeps appointments
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Schedules appointments when necessary
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Additional criteria or Feedback
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| * Requirements for "satisfactory" must be fulfilled as well | |||
| ** In case of fraud or plagiarism, the examiner will inform the Board of Examiners of this in writing | |||
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