Department of Biology and Marine Biology
Assessment for Biology and Marine Biology Graduate Program
Masters of Science Program in Biology
Learning Objective #3: A graduate student should be able to communicate his or her research to a
broadly-trained public audience.
Assessment #3: Departmental Seminar presentation of thesis research is successfully completed.
Form to be completed by Thesis Committee at end of the thesis defense. Please add comments on
back of form or extra sheet if you wish.
(1) The student’s presentation was professional and well-organized:
1 2 3 4 5
Poor Adequate Well done
(2) The student’s demonstrated mastery of his or her research was:
1 2 3 4 5
Poor Adequate Well done
(3) The student was able to answer questions from the audience:
1 2 3 4 5
Poorly Adequately Very well
(4) The student was able to demonstrate professional poise during the presentation:
1 2 3 4 5