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Poor Adequate Well done

Learning Objective #3: A graduate (Ph.D.) student should be able to communicate his or her research to a broadly-trained
public audience.
Assessment #3: Departmental Seminar presentation of dissertation research is successfully completed. All faculty present at
the seminar will evaluate your performance.

(1) The student’s presentation was professional and well-organized:

(2) The student’s demonstrated mastery of his or her research was:

(3) The student was able to answer questions from the audience:

(4) The student was able to demonstrate professional poise during the presentation:

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Poor Adequate Well done

Learning Objective #4: A graduate (Ph.D.) student should be able to write up his or her research in the form of multiple
manuscripts for publication in scientific journals.
Assessment #4: Multi-chaptered dissertation is successfully completed. Your committee will evaluate your performance.

(1) The student’s dissertation was written:
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Poorly Adequately Very well

(2) The student’s dissertation demonstrated mastery of the research:
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Poor Adequate Very well

(3) Based upon its quality, the likelihood of the dissertation being published is:

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Poor Likely Very likely

(4) Has the student already submitted for publication one or more chapters?
Yes No

(5) Has the student already published one or more chapters?
Yes No

Learning Outcome #5: A graduate student should be able to create new teaching materials

Assessment #5: Successful completion of Teaching practicum course and a formal lecture or laboratory presentation in an
undergraduate course. Form used for this assessment is our Evaluation of Teaching form. Our assessment tool will be the
last question on the form. Your advisor and the course instructor will evaluate your performance.

Overall effectiveness of teaching:

Unsatisfactory – cannot keep attention of class; shows little enthusiasm for subject matter; un-organized presentation of material;
does not link lessons with class theme; unresponsive to students.

Satisfactory – generally keeps attention of class; shows enthusiasm for subject matter; presents material in organized fashion; links