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 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 grounds and evaluation report
    • Faculty of Science and Engineering: criteria  and evaluation 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 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 grounds and evaluation report
    • Faculty of Science and Engineering: criteria  and evaluation form
• 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.