Department of Biology and Marine Biology
Assessment for Biology and Marine Biology Graduate Program
PhD Marine Biology
Learning Objective #3: A graduate student should be able to communicate his or her research to a
broadly-trained public audience.
Assessment #3: Two Departmental Seminar presentations of dissertation research are
successfully completed.
Form to be completed by Dissertation Committee at end of the each seminar. 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