Assessment Criteria for Year Abroad Dissertations
Language - Weighting 50% | Content - Weighting 50% | |
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I | Consistent precision and grammatical accuracy (no major flaws or faults); wide range of structures and vocabulary; reads (or sounds) like authentic (i.e., native) language |
Clear, organized, articulate exposition, with outstanding grasp of the material; significant evidence of independent reading, and some evidence of original ideas |
IIi | Consistent grammatical accuracy (not too many major flaws or faults); good range of structures and vocabulary; reads well (or sounds acceptable) without undue clumsiness or (where applicable) interference from the source language |
Clear, organized, exposition, with good grasp of the material; signs of original reading; evidence of having thoroughly understood and digested the material to the point of being able to redeploy, extrapolate from, and develop it; answers the question set |
IIii | Acceptable level of grammatical accuracy (though probably with major flaws and faults); ability to use structures and vocabulary to convey what is meant, although probably with some clumsiness or (where applicable) interference from the source language |
Organized exposition, reasonable grasp of the material, evidence of having understood the material; may well be a reasonable answer, but not one which answers the question set |
III | Rudimentary level of basic grammatical accuracy (with numerous major flaws and faults); limited ability to use structures and vocabulary to convey what is meant, although with systematic interference from the source language |
Comprehensible exposition; very basic grasp of the material; some evidence of having understood the material at a fairly elementary level, perhaps with evidence of misunderstandings |
Pass | Systematic grammatical inaccuracy; inability to use structures and vocabulary to convey what is meant; systematic and wholesale interference from the source language |
Poor and/or incomprehensible exposition; unreliable and very rudimentary grasp of the material; no evidence of having understood the material, and probably substantial evidence of major and fundamental misunderstandings |