Qualitative Assessment Guidelines for MSc Graduation Projects in Electrical Engineering

This paper presents novel qualitative assessment guidelines for grading MSc graduation projects in the Electrical Engineering (EE) Faculty of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The goals of the guidelines are to provide a grading system that is impartial, time-efficient, consistent, reproducible, transparent, and conducive to enhancing the learning experience. Furthermore, the guidelines establish a taxonomy for evaluating final projects, creating a shared language and a set of criteria across the extensive and varied faculty of EE. The grading is based on five categories: student-centric, work-centric, process-centric, documentation-centric, and communication-centric aspects, where each category features four aspects. For each category and every aspect of it, this paper provides a qualitative scale, totaling in 24 different qualitative gradients.