CSSE3001/7000 Project Marking 2007

Assessment Strategy

The purpose of the project is to enable you to explore a focused area in depth. The mark scheme is designed to encourage your to do so without too many distractions. You have 3 opportunities to present your work, designed to give you feedback before the final submission.

Deliverables

presentation – you will give a short talk on your project, to give you the opportunity to get feedback on your results before completing your write-up. The mark scheme for this is simple to emphasize that it is a feedback point
demo – you will need to do a demo to show off what your project does. If your project required analysis of work of others rather than implementation, the demo will take the form of answering questions about what you did. The purpose of the demo is to clarify any issues you may have with what to write up after your talk, and to calibrate your expectations of how much to write up
write up – this should be in the form of a lab report, in which you:
- itemize goals
- show what you did to meet those goals
- present any performance results or analysis of other work
- arrive at conclusions
Your write up should be at most 10 pages including diagrams, graphs and tables.

The mark scheme is as follows:

TOTAL 25		maximum marks
presentation	easy to follow	1
max: 5	results clear	1
	results substantial	2
	conclusions clear and substantial	1
demo max: 4	nothing/poor/adequate/good	4
write up max: 16	easy to follow: problem being addressed clear no excessive typos order logical graphs, diagrams, tables used effectively	3
	results clear: how derived significance clear distinction of own vs. others’ results easy to find significant aspects	6
	results substantial significant work clearly addresses problem	4
	conclusions clear clear why results address problem clear how significant results are clear how general results are	3

CSSE7000 Additional assessment

Students taking the course as CSSE7000 will in addition be required to do a 1-page literature review, meeting the following requirements:

find at least 5 references related to the work, including some which are not web pages or manuals and are published research
follow the format of a literature review: cite references, report work of others in your own words, end with a list of references

This extra assessment item will be graded on a pass/fail basis. Failure to pass this aspect of the project will result in the project component being capped at 75%.

Plagiarism and misconduct

Please make sure your understand the university’s policy on plagiarism and misconduct, as outlined on the course profile. Work of no academic merit will be given a mark of zero which does not imply misconduct. Suspected cases of misconduct will always be referred to an official process to maximize the rights of the accused student.