Table 10.1    A marking checklist for students’ written presentations in a problem-based engineering (vibration analysis) course

 

 

Element                         Checklist                                   Grade

                                                                                    (5 = high)

Development of             Criteria for appropriate

appropriate model          solution correctly identified

                                    and interpreted?                         1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Ways in which system vibrates

                                    correctly identified?                    1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Appropriate model chosen

                                    and developed?                         1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Assumptions made in model

                                    justified correctly?                      1 2 3 4 5

 

Analysis of model           Method of analysis correct?         1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Answer reasonable?                   1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Answer completely correct?         1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Check using simple analysis

                                    and/or reference to behaviour

                                    of similar systems?                     1 2 3 4 5

 

Conclusions and            Conclusion and

Recommendations          recommendations justified in

                                    relation to needs of client?          1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    All relevant factors taken

                                    into account?                             1 2 3 4 5

 

Quality of presentation    Clearly laid out and structured?   1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Sufficient information, but

                                    without unnecessary padding?     1 2 3 4 5

 

                                    Appropriate to audience?            1 2 3 4 5

 

Source: Based on Cawley, P. (1989). The introduction of a problem-based option into a conventional engineering degree course. Studies in Higher Education, 14. 83-94. (Table V)

 

 

This example of a feedback sheet is taken from:

Ramsden, P. (1992). Learning to teach in higher education. London: Routledge.  p. 102