Department of Biology and Marine Biology
Assessment for Biology and Marine Biology Graduate Program
PhD Marine Biology
Learning Objective #4: A graduate 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.
Form to be completed by Dissertation Committee at end of defense. Please add comments on
back of form or extra sheet if you wish.
(1) The student’s dissertation was written:
1 2 3 4 5
Poorly Adequately Very well
(2) The student’s dissertation demonstrated mastery of the research:
1 2 3 4 5
Poor Adequate Very well
(3) Based upon its quality, the likelihood of the dissertation being published is:
1 2 3 4 5
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