Department of Biology and Marine Biology
Assessment for Biology and Marine Biology Graduate Program
Masters of Science Programs in Marine Biology and Biology
Learning Outcome #1b: A graduate student should be able to present and defend a research plan.
Assessment #1b: Prospectus is successfully presented to the department.
Form used for this assessment is our Graduate Student Prospectus Symposium Evaluation form.
Our assessment tool will be question #5. This form should be filled in by faculty only.
- What would be your overall rank of the student’s proposed research project?
Unsatisfactory – research question is not interesting or important; research unlikely to yield significant
results; project poorly designed; requires minimal effort on the part of the student
Satisfactory - research question is valid; research likely to yield useful results; project adequately
designed; requires acceptable level of effort on the part of the student
Commendable - research question is novel; research likely to yield significant results; project very well
designed; project requires significant effort on the part of the student
In the box below, tally up the number of times you used each answer for Question #5.
Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Commendable