Biology and Marine Biology

research to a broadly-
trained public audience.
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Goals: thoughtful
expression.

completed. An assessment

form is filled out by

departmental faculty

members after the seminar.

attending the seminar. Data

on presentation quality,

mastery of research,

professional poise and

ability to answer questions

are collected.

(n=9), with all elements of

this SLO (presentation

quality, mastery of research,

ability to answer questions

and poise all at 100%.

These numbers are

improvements over the

previous year. In 2010- 2011

our Ph.D. students were

assessed as performing well

on presentation quality and

poise (85% for both), but at

lower levels for mastery of

research and ability to

answer questions (54% for

both). In the 2009- 2010

year, we had no

assessments to report. In

2008 - 2009 our students

demonstrated higher levels

of performance with

performance >90% for all

parts of this SLO.

However any trends in

these data need to be

viewed with caution as

sample sizes are still small –

all faculty members view

this seminar but we still only

have 9 responses here for

2011 - 2012. We feel that

given the nature of this

assessment tool, a greater

number of responses is

required to fully evaluate

student performance on this

SLO.

taken at this point as the

data are limited to one year.

We will continue to collect

these data in the coming

years.

SLO 4: A graduate student
should be able to write up

Multi-chaptered

dissertation is successfully

Each student in the program

is assessed by each of

In 2011-2012 we had 9

responses for this SLO.

Results were discussed at

the Faculty retreat in