[Academic] PH450 project assessment

[Kevin O'Donnell]

Dear Supervisors, Project Assessors and Viva Chairs,

all 61 projects from this year’s PH450 class have now been received and are available on the I drive as per Tim’s email of 20th April. We have a busy week coming up!

Please make sure that all Supervisors’ and Project Report marks for which you are responsible are delivered to the designated Viva Chair at least 3 days before the Viva is due to take place. A safe deadline for this task is the end of this week.

We need to ensure that marks are both fair to the students and agreeable to the examiners, both internal and external.The following guidelines should be used:

When marking reports, giving a supervisor’s mark, viva mark or talk mark please consider the following guidelines

Mark

Description

10

Essentially no evidence of engagement

20

Extremely poor performance

30

Insignificant achievements

40

Evidence of engagement but criteria largely not met

50

Elements of criteria met

60

Criteria met with a few exceptions

70

Criteria met

80

Very good performance

90

Exceptionally good performance

100

Once in a lifetime performance


 Good Luck!

Kevin





Kevin Peter O'Donnell
Professor of Semiconductor Spectroscopy
SUPA Physics Department
Strathclyde University
Glasgow G4 0NG
Scotland, UK.

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