Qualitative Assessment Guidelines for MSc Graduation Projects in Electrical Engineering

BASTEN, TWAN; RADULOV, GEORGI; SERRA, RAMIRO; MARTINEZ, M. CECILIA

EAEEIE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Lugar: Eindhoven; Año: 2023

This paper presents novel qualitative assessment guidelines for grading MSc graduation projects in the Electrical Engineering (EE) Faculty of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The goals of the guidelines are to provide a grading system that is impartial, time-efficient, consistent, reproducible, transparent, and conducive to enhancing the learning experience. Furthermore, the guidelines establish a taxonomy for evaluating final projects, creating a shared language and a set of criteria across the extensive and varied faculty of EE. The grading is based on five categories: student-centric, work-centric, process-centric, documentation-centric, and communication-centric aspects, where each category features four aspects. For each category and every aspect of it, this paper provides a qualitative scale, totaling in 24 different qualitative gradients.