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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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Content
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Content: Insufficient
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Content: Satisfactory
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Content: Excellent
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| Title |
• Does not justify the content
• Suggests incorrect/over interpretation of data |
Represents the content
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• Attracts attention
• Creative and original |
| Abstract |
• Misrepresents the content
• Lacks components • Is hard to understand |
• Represents most highlights
• Contains all components • Can be understood without additional information |
• Represents main information and all highlights
• Concise and correct |
| Layman’s Summary |
• Misrepresents the content
• Unattractive and too technical • Level too high / too low |
• Represents most highlights
• Understandable but not appealing • High school level |
• Represents main information and all highlights
• Interesting to read and easy to understand |
| Introduction Relevance research question and scope of literature research (if applicable) |
Incomplete or inaccurate overview of literature
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Adequate overview of relevant literature
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Complete concise overview of relevant literature
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Research question absent or lacks focus
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Research question well defined and focussed
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Substantiated research question with clear focus
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Relevance research question unclear
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Relevance of research question clarified
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Research question has the potential to contribute useful new knowledge to the field
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Search strategy is badly motivated, inappropriate, confusing or unsystematic
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Valid strategy used for searching literature or collecting data
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Search strategy clearly outlined and optimally suited to answer research question
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| Main body of text Description of relevant literature/ data analysis |
Incomplete or incorrect analysis of relevant literature/data
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Satisfactory analyses/ descriptions/ interpretations of data/retrieved literature
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Data/retrieved publications and analyses are valid, complete and presented concisely
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Data/retrieved publications are irrelevant
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Text can be understood without information provided by figures and tables
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Interpretation of literature/data is convincing and creative
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| Tables and figures |
Absent/incorrect referral in written text
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Correctly referred to in written text |
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• Tables and figures are irrelevant
• Do not support text |
Relevant presentation of acquired data
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• Presented in the best possible way
• Excellent presentation of acquired data |
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Legends provide insufficient information
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• Can be understood without additional information
• Legends contain the necessary information |
Legends are complete and concise
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| Discussion and Conclusion Presentation of new models or hypotheses, Depth and critical analysis |
• Weak or not supported by evidence
• Repetitive information |
In line with presented evidence
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Fails to answer research question
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Answers research question
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Data inadequately discussed, sticking rigidly to
existing concepts or using invalid arguments |
Relation data and research question discussed
adequately, using valid arguments |
Concise, sensible and in depth discussion of
data in relation to research question |
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Discussion fails to address strengths and
weaknesses of study |
Strengths and limitations, new insights are
addressed in the light of the literature |
• Complete, critical and balanced discussion of
strengths, limitations, new insights and hypotheses • Critical discussion of how the data relate to current knowledge of the subject |
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Hypotheses, new models, or suggestions for
additional research are missing/ illogical |
• Suggestions for future research may be
based on weak assumptions • New insights, hypotheses or new models presented |
New insights, new models and hypotheses are
discussed in depth |
Structure and Style
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Structure and Style: Insufficient
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Structure and Style: Satisfactory
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Structure and Style: Excellent
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| Structure and line of reasoning |
The line of thought is unclear
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Line of thought mostly clear
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The line of thought is easy to follow and supported by the structure
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Text is badly structured
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Structure supports legibility of text
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| Referencing |
• Referral is insufficient, inconsistent, incomplete or incorrect**
• References cannot be retrieved |
• Referral is complete and correct
• References can be traced • Correct application of a single referencing system |
(Key) references have been found independently
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| Writing Skills |
Style too wordy or too concise
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Grammar and style enable understanding of the information
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• Writing flows smoothly
• Grammar and style support legibility of the document |
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Disturbing spelling or grammar mistakes
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No errors present detected by spellcheckers
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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 |
Content superficiallly handled; depth is lacking
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Part of ideas/content conceived independently
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Content is provided independently
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Relies on supervisor’s instructions only
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Takes initiative (initially) after stimulation |
Contains creative elements
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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
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| 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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| * 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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