Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report and Presentation
                           King Abdulaziz University
                           Faculty of Engineering
                           Academic Accreditation Unit
                                                                                                          Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report 
                   Department of                                                                                                                                        Academic Year:
                   Training Company:
                   Student Name:
                   Evaluator:
                   Item Evaluated                                                5                                                           3                                            1                                    0                   weight    Score
                           The student’s        A simple, clear, brief,  positive, and correctly written statement, The statement describes the big picture idea of     The statement is ambiguous, does       The goal/ mission statement is 
                           overall goal/        that  describes the "big-picture" idea of why the student is       why the student is interested to have the training,  not address the training activities, or missing.
                           mission statement  interested to  have  training, what he wants to focus on, and        but it is either long, complicated,  or contains     contains a lot of linguistic errors.                                          2
                           for the training     what he needs to accomplish.                                       negative elements.
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                        c  Expected  Learning Three or more correctly written learning outcomes that               Learning outcomes are  specific, measurable,         some Learning outcomes are either  Learning outcomes are missing, 
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                        d  outcomes             describe specific, measurable, and realistic achievements to       realistic and job related but they are either far    ambiguous, not sufficiently specific, ambiguous, or contains a lot of 
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                        t                       accomplish during the training experience.  They  relate to the  away from the student's course of study or do not  cannot be achieved within the              linguistic errors.
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                        I                       job, represent the job functions and duties, assist in             clearly address the student's overall goal of the    training time limit, or cannot be 
                                                professional growth and development, relate to the student's       training experience.                                 evaluated at the end of the                                                   2
                                                course of study or major, and help to reach the overall goal of                                                         experience.
                                                student's training experience. 
                           Historical           Correctly written short description of the company/                Historical background is long, taken as is from      Historical background is badly         Historical background is missing.
                           Background           establishment history.                                             the company documentations, or contains              written, ambiguous or contains                                                1
                                                                                                                   irrelevant data.                                     many linguistic mistakes. 
                           Organizational       The organizational structure is presented in a clear way and       The organizational structure is badly presented.                                            The organizational structure is        1
                           Structure            suitable format.                                                                                                                                               missing.
                           Products/ services The products/ services of the company are clearly described          The products/ services of the company are                                                   Products/ services are not 
                                                and compared to similar products/ services in the market.          described without being compared to similar                                                 mentioned.                             1
                                                                                                                   products/services in the market.
                           Customers            Products/ services are associated to their customers and their     Customers are mentioned without specifying their                                            Customers are not mentioned.           1
                        y                       expected needs.                                                    particular needs.
                        n  Engineering Units Engineering units are described in details with their functions  Only some engineering units are clearly and               Engineering units are briefly          Engineering units are 
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                        p                       and organizational structure.                                      sufficiently described.                              mentioned.                             underestimated or not mentioned 
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                        e  Industrial process   The industrial process is fully described, with sufficient photos, The industrial process is shortly, but clearly,      The industrial process is              No interest is given to describing 
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                        T                       figures, or graphical representations                              described.                                           ambiguously, or erroneously            the industrial process.
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                                                                                                                                                                        described.
                           Environmental and The environmental and social impact of the company, its               The environmental and social impact of the           Only effects on immediate users are Environmental and social 
                           social impact        products, and its by-products are fully described including        company, its products, and its by-products are       discussed.                             impacts are disregarded.
                                                immediate and long-term issues involved on users and non-          described including widespread effects involved                                                                                    1
                                                users locally and globally.                                        but with somewhat limited perspective about 
                                                                                                                   long-term factors.
                           Quality System       The quality system is fully described with sufficient photos,      The quality system is shortly, but clearly,          The quality system is ambiguously,  Quality system is underestimated 
                                                figures, or graphical representations.                             described.                                           or erroneously described.              or not mentioned at all.               1
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                                                                                             Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report and Presentation
                             King Abdulaziz University
                             Faculty of Engineering
                             Academic Accreditation Unit
                                                                                                                 Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report 
                    Department of                                                                                                                                                  Academic Year:
                    Training Company:
                    Student Name:
                    Evaluator:
                    Item Evaluated                                                    5                                                               3                                                1                                      0                    weight     Score
                             Work environment The nature of the activities carried out by the department(s) or  The nature of the activities carried out by the                    The nature of the activities carried     The nature of the activities is not 
                                                   unit(s) where the major part of the training experience took           department(s) or unit(s) where the major part of         out by the department(s) or unit(s)      mentioned.
                         t                         place, is clearly described.  Whether the function of the              the training experience took place, is clearly           where the major part of the training 
                         n                         department is design, maintenance, R&D, project management, described. Nevertheless the unit is viewed as if it  experience took place, is 
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                         m                         or anything else, the student is able to relate it to the activities  is a stand alone entity.                                  ambiguously, or erroneously 
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                         o                         of the whole company/ establishment.                                                                                            described.
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                         g   Standards,            Paper work is clearly described with reference to applicable           Paper work is clearly described but no reference  Paper work is  ambiguously, or                  Paper work is underestimated or 
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                         n   Regulations, and      standards and regulations.                                             is made to applicable standards and regulations.         erroneously described.                   not mentioned at all.                     1
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                         e   Timeline              A time plan of the whole training activity is presented using          An attempt is made to develop a work time plan  The time plan is inefficient and                  No time plan is developed.  Work 
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                         T                         standard project planning techniques such as Gant charts,              but it is either incomplete, unclear, unbalanced, or training days are spent in a non             is carried on daily bases
                                                   deployment charts, and critical path analysis.                         does not follow standard project planning                productive way.                                                                    1
                                                                                                                          techniques.
                             Problem definition    The problem to be solved is clearly stated. Objectives are             The problem to be solved is described but there are      An attempt is made to identify the       No mention is made of the problem 
                                                   complete, specific, and concise. Customer needs are correctly          minor omissions or vague details. Objectives are         problem to be solved but it is           to be solved. 
                                                   identified and transformed into project requirements. All potential  conceptually correct  but may be incomplete, do not  described in a confusing manner,  
                                                   customers are identified and their needs are taken into                address the needs of all potential customers, or badly objectives are not relevant or contain                                               3
                                                   consideration.                                                         transformed into project requirements.                   technical/ conceptual errors and 
                                                                                                                                                                                   project requirements are vague or 
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                         c   Literature review     All pertaining information (including regulations, standards, and      Pertaining information are identified and collected      Collected information are limited,       The students are unable to identify, 
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                         o   and data collection   operational experiences) are identified and collected from a variety from a variety of credible sources.  Information are   accessed from  incredible or limited          access and/or  present pertaining 
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                                                   of credible sources. Information are reviewed and assessed with        assessed with respect to their quality, validity or      sources or presented without any         information in an acceptable 
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                         k                         respect to their quality, validity and accuracy and presented using a accuracy to a limited extent or presented in a non        attempt to assess their quality, validity format                                   3
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                         a                         standard and ethically referenced literature review format.            standard format.                                         or accuracy.
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                         s   Knowledge             The problem to be solved is logically formulated.  Prior knowledge The problem to be solved is  formulated but there are An attempt is made to formulate the             Knowledge integration is absent or 
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                         A   integration with      of mathematics, science and engineering principles as well as          minor omissions or vague details. An attempt is          problem but it is either confusing, or   completely erroneous
                             course work           discipline related courses and collected information are               made to use prior knowledge but it is either             conceptually incorrect, with limited                                               3
                                                   successfully integrated to address the problem.                        incomplete or contains some conceptual errors.           use of prior knowledge.   
                             Safety and            Measures to deal responsibly with both safety issues and               Measures presented deal responsibly with only one        Measures  to deal with both safety and No mention is made of related 
                             environmental         environmental hazards are presented                                    aspect: either safety issues or  environmental hazards environmental hazards are vague,           safety or environmental issues.           3
                             issues                                                                                                                                                incomplete, or insufficient
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                                                                                              Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report and Presentation
                             King Abdulaziz University
                             Faculty of Engineering
                             Academic Accreditation Unit
                                                                                                                  Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report 
                     Department of                                                                                                                                                   Academic Year:
                     Training Company:
                     Student Name:
                     Evaluator:
                     Item Evaluated                                                    5                                                               3                                                 1                                       0                   weight     Score
                             Work plan             An effective work strategy is developed, including a plan of attack,     An attempt is made to develop a workable strategy but  work strategy is inefficient and the       No work strategy is presented; a 
                                                   decomposition of work into subtasks, balanced responsibilities of        it is either incomplete, unclear, unbalanced, or does not work plan does not ensure project       haphazard approach seems to be 
                                                   team members, an executable timetable and a justified project budget. follow standard project planning techniques.                completion on time or within budget.     followed, or the student relied on 
                                                    Standard project planning techniques such as Gant charts,                                                                                                                 instructions from his supervisors.         3
                                                   deployment charts, and critical path analysis are used.
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                         n   Economic factors      Deep understanding of applied economic factors of related products       Good understanding of applied economic factors and       Some understanding of applied            Little or no understanding of 
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                         n                         and the impact they may have on the economy at large as well as long how they affect other related products.                      economic factors.                        economic factors involved.                 3
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                         t   Implementation        The work carried out represents an engineering contribution similar to The work carried out represents an engineering             The work carried out is similar to that  No credible hands-on work is 
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                         j                         that carried by a professional engineer in the field and is well         contribution similar to that carried by a professional   typically carried by field technicians   presented.
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                         r                         described                                                                engineer in the field but it is badly or ambiguously     rather than professional engineers.                                                 3
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                         a   Impact analysis       Related environmental, social, health and safety issues as well as       Related environmental, social, health and safety issues  An attempt is made to evaluate the       No impact statement is present.
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                                                   anticipated hazards are deeply evaluated. Local and global, long term  as well as  anticipated hazards are evaluated with         impact of the work but it is either 
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                         n                         as well as short term benefits and risks on users and non users are      minor errors and omissions.                              incomplete, superficial, or containing                                              3
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                         i                         analyzed and how they might impact the general acceptance of the                                                                  major conceptual errors.
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                         A                         results of the work done.
                             Evaluation            Performance of the final work compares favorably to customer             Performance of the final work fails to satisfy some      Performance of the final work fails to   Final work is not evaluated
                                                   requirements, pre-set outcomes, operational constraints, and existing  requirements but deviations are analyzed and               satisfy some requirements. Deviations 
                                                   products if any.                                                         improvements are proposed.                               are analyzed but no improvements are                                                3
                                                                                                                                                                                     proposed.
                             Achievement of        The student is able to present convincing evidences that all of his      The student fails to satisfy some of his learning        The student fails to satisfy some of his  Achievement of expected learning 
                         s   expected learning     Learning outcomes were achieved by the end of the training period.       outcomes, but this failure is recognized and correctly   learning outcomes, failure is recognized outcomes is not reported.
                         n   outcomes                                                                                       analyzed.                                                but it is ambiguously or insufficiently                                             1
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                         n   Recommendations to Analysis of the achievement of the student's learning outcomes are          Analysis of the achievement of the student's learning    Some general recommendations are         No recommendations to enhance the 
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                         m   enhance future        used to develop specific rational recommendations to enhance the         outcomes are used to develop recommendations to          presented, but they are not clearly      future training in this company are 
                         m   training in this      future student's training experience in this company.                    enhance the future student's training experience in this  correlated to the achievement of the    presented.
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                         c   company                                                                                        company,  but some of them are vague, irrational, do     student's learning outcomes in the                                                  1
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                         R                                                                                                  not address the real problem, or badly written.          present company.
                          
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                         i   Recommendations to The student's training experience is used to develop a set of rational,  The student's training experience is used to develop        Some general recommendations are         No recommendations to enhance the 
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                         l   enhance future        clear and precise recommendations to KAU in order to enhance the         recommendations to KAU in order to enhance the           presented, but they are not clearly      future training f KAU engineering 
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                         n   training of KAU       future training of the engineering students.                             future training of the engineering students, but some of correlated to the  student's training    students are presented.
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                         C   engineering students                                                                           them are vague, irrational, do not address the real      experience.
                                                                                                                            problem, or badly written. 
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                                                                                            Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report and Presentation
                             King Abdulaziz University
                             Faculty of Engineering
                             Academic Accreditation Unit
                                                                                                                 Assessment Rubric for Summer Training Report 
                    Department of                                                                                                                                                 Academic Year:
                    Training Company:
                    Student Name:
                    Evaluator:
                    Item Evaluated                                                    5                                                              3                                                1                                      0                    weight     Score
                             Presentation of       Demonstrate an excellent understanding of all major topics             Demonstrate good understanding of the subject           Demonstrate some understanding of        Demonstrate an ignorance of the 
                             technical content     presented and argued with clear links between successive ideas         matter with its major points stated and argued with     the subject matter with main topics      topic or its main points, or the 
                                                   using superb organization from a capturing introduction to a clear  clear links between successive ideas, but with             that are limited, partially covered,     points presented are not related, 
                                                   conclusion that builds on and provides support to the subject          occasional lack of logical flow from an acceptable      incorrectly argued, lack logical flow,   not organized, or not appropriately       1
                                                   matter.                                                                introduction to a reasonable conclusion.                weakly introduced, or have a non         introduced or concluded.
                                                                                                                                                                                  convincing conclusion. 
                             Addressing needs of Present information that is readers/audience focused, organized to  Demonstrate awareness of the readers/audience                Demonstrate some awareness of the        Demonstrate ignorance of 
                             readers/audience      meet their needs, and falls within prescribed size or allocated time  needs, respect prescribed size or allocated time and     readers/audience needs but may fail to readers/audience or present 
                                                   using engaging techniques to efficiently  capture the interest of the  occasionally use some engaging techniques .             capture their interest and engagement,  information that is false, missing or      1
                         s                         readers/audience.                                                                                                              or fail to respect prescribed size or    has an inappropriate technical 
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                         S   Visual appeal         Present a content that follows standard/prescribed format, that is     Present a content that  follows standard/prescribed     Present a content that  follows          Present a content that: does not 
                          
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                         o                         free from spelling, grammar, punctuation or pronunciation errors,      format, that has few spelling, grammar, punctuation  standard/prescribed format, but  has        follow prescribed format, makes no 
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                         t                         and makes frequent and effective use of fonts, headings, bullets,      or pronunciation errors,  and makes occasional use of many spelling, grammar, or                 use of fonts, headings, bullets or 
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                         i                         margins, and white spaces to enhance the content’s visual appeal       fonts, headings, bullets, margins, and white spaces to punctuation errors, or  makes minimal white spaces, or has serious 
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                         u                         and increase readability.                                              enhance the content’s visual appeal and increase        use of fonts, headings, bullets and      problems in English syntax.               1
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                         r   Graphical             Effectively use serially numbered, self contained and well             Use serially numbered, self contained and well          Present some figures or tables that are  Use illustrations that: do not add 
                         W   communication         formatted figures, tables, drawings, or other graphical illustrations  formatted graphical illustrations with appropriate      not well formatted, not numbered,        value to the scientific merit of the 
                             skills                with appropriate captions that are suitably mentioned and discussed captions, but some of them are not mentioned or            uncaptioned, or misplaced.               artifact, are used only for               1
                                                   to enhance the content                                                 discussed.                                                                                       decorative purposes, or are missed 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           when needed.
                             Credibility &         Use reliable and credible references/citations that follow standard  Use accurate sources that support the credibility of      Use few accurate sources, that may       Consistently use unreliable 
                             authenticity          format (IEEE, AIAA, ASME, etc.) to support the credibility and         the information presented, but they may include few  fail to adequately support the              references, do not follow standard 
                                                   authenticity of the information presented without any sort of          unreliable references, references that do not follow    credibility of the information, present  format, or rely upon plagiarism or 
                                                   plagiarism or dishonestly copied material.                             standard format, or have some sort of plagiarism.       many unreliable references or            dishonestly copied material.              1
                                                                                                                                                                                  references that do not follow standard 
                                                                                                                                                                                  format, or have several dishonestly 
                                                                                                                                                                                  copied material.
                                                                                             REPORT SCORE OUT OF 50 ( To succeed the student should obtain 30 or more)                                                                                               50        0
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