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:

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

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

  • 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 department's assessment criteria:
    • Humaniiies: criteria  and assessment form
    • Education: criteria  [pdf]
    • Business and Econmics, and Law: criteria (and evaluation form in Swedish)
    • Social Sciences: criteria (and evaluation form in Swedish)
      • If a student has started their Master's thesis in Social Sciences = socialvetenskaper in the academic year 2024–2025 based on the assessment criteria used at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies and submits their Master's thesis for assessment in the academic year 2025–2026, FPV's assessment matrix will be used. Students who have started their master's thesis earlier will be assessed according to the assessment criteria of the Department of Social Sciences.
    • Faculty of Science and Engineering: criteria  and evaluation form
      • NB Health Sciences and Social Sciences (previously at FPV) should check what assessment criteria to use (email egradu@abo.fi)
• 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 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 department's assessment criteria:
    • Humaniiies: criteria  and assessment form
    • Education: criteria  [pdf]
    • Business and Econmics, and Law: criteria (and evaluation form in Swedish)
    • Social Sciences: criteria (and evaluation form in Swedish)
      • If a student has started their Master's thesis in Social Sciences = socialvetenskaper in the academic year 2024–2025 based on the assessment criteria used at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies and submits their Master's thesis for assessment in the academic year 2025–2026, FPV's assessment matrix will be used. Students who have started their master's thesis earlier will be assessed according to the assessment criteria of the Department of Social Sciences.
    • Faculty of Science and Engineering: criteria  and evaluation form
      • NB Health Sciences and Social Sciences (previously at FPV) should check what assessment criteria to use (email egradu@abo.fi)
• shall within 20 working days send their own or a mutual statement by email to egradu@abo.fi as well as to the supervisor, the head of subject and the student (with the statement(s) attached)

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.