eGraduEng: Thesis evaluation

The Head of Department (or an appointed person)

• Is informed by email from the supervisor that the plagiarism check was successful and that thesis evaluation can be initiated 
• appoints two thesis evaluators.
• assures that the thesis evaluators receive information by email regarding:
  • who the appointed thesis evaluators are 
  • the thesis evaluator's responsibilities 
  • the 20 working day window inside which the evaluation should result in two separate or one mutual statements along with a thesis grade proposal 
  • the thesis document
  • link to the faculty's criteria and grounds for the assessment of Master's theses:
    • Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology: criteria and grounds and assessment form
    • Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies: criteria and grounds [pdf]
    • Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics: criteria and grounds and evaluation report
    • Faculty of Science and Engineering: criteria and grounds and grading form

This is what the head of subject should do if the supervisor informs him/her that the master’s thesis includes confidential information:

• First, ask external evaluators to sign a non-disclosure agreement, i.d. an "NDA"
• Then send the master’s thesis with a confidential appendix for subject evaluation

The head of subject must note that he/she is bound by the obligation of professional secrecy regarding confidential master's theses.

The thesis evaluators

• are informed by email from the Head of Department (or a person appointed by him/her) about their task, including the thesis document.
• shall evaluate the thesis and write their statements::
  • link to the faculty's criteria and ground as well as assessment form for the assessment of Master's theses:
    • Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology: criteria and grounds and assessment form
    • Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies: criteria and grounds [pdf]
    • Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics: criteria and grounds and evaluation report
    • Faculty of Science and Engineering: criteria and grounds and grading form
• shall within 20 working days send their own or a mutual statement by email to the faculty's eGradu address, as well as to the supervisor, the head of subject and the student (with the statement(s) attached)
  The following email addresses are used: NB! You only send the email to your own faculty's email address!
  • Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology: fhptgradu@abo.fi
  • Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies: fpvgradu@abo.fi
  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics: fsegradu@abo.fi
  • Faculty of Science and Engineering: fntgradu@abo.fi. 

If the thesis includes confidential material, the evaluator should note that he/she is bound by the obligation of professional secrecy.
An external evaluator should sign an NDA, which he/she will get from the head of the subject.