How Can We Mark Graduation Theses and Oral Presentations Properly?

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  • Ueda Kazuo
    Department of Human Science | Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University
  • Samejima Toshiya
    Department of Communication Design Science | Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University

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  • 卒業研究評価法の比較
  • ソツギョウ ケンキュウ ヒョウカホウ ノ ヒカク

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Abstract

The present report focuses on how roles of faculty members bias scoring of graduation theses and oral presentations. There were three categories of roles: (1)a Chair, (2)deputy chairs, and(3)the rest of the faculty. An advisor of a student was obligately appointed as a chair. Two deputy chairs were selected on the basis of similarity to the advisor in their specialities. The chair and deputy chairs assessed both a graduation thesis and an oral presentation of the student, whereas the rest of the faculty only assessed the oral presentation. The chair also took into consideration the student’s general research activity. Chairs, i.e. advisors, tended to score higher than deputy chairs. The distribution of the scores given by deputy chairs showed the largest standard deviation, suggesting that the same person acting as a deputy chair tended to score with a sharper contrast for the quality of research than when he or she was acting as a chair. Thus, a group of a chair and deputy chairs can work in effect a kind of an antagonistic system that cancels out the biases inevitably caused by the roles of a chair and a deputy chair. These biases should be taken into account if we would propose a more preferable marking system of graduation theses and oral presentations.

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  • 芸術工学研究

    芸術工学研究 13 57-61, 2010-12-15

    九州大学大学院芸術工学研究院

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