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Business Internship Science & Business Management
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Criteria	Insufficient: fails to meet academic requirements	Satisfactory: meets academic requirements	Excellent: belongs to the top 10%*
Content	Content: Insufficient	Content: Satisfactory	Content: Excellent
Content of Thesis	Content is unclear, inaccurate, and/or incomplete
	Support for the central purpose of the project is weak or poorly discussed	Presents clear and appropriate information that adequately supports the central purpose of the project	Presents balanced, significant, and valid information that clearly and convincingly supports the central purpose of the project
	Displays only rudimentary knowledge of the content area	Demonstrates satisfactory knowledge of the content area	Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the content area
	Reader gains few if any insights	Reader gains some insights	Reader gains important insights
Usefulness of Conclusions and Recommendations	Conclusions are often not well supported, inaccurate, and/or inconsistent	Conclusions are logical and consistent with the analysis and evidence, though maybe not surprising	Conclusions are coherent, well supported, logically consistent, complete and insightful
Usefulness of Conclusions and Recommendations	Recommendations, if any, are trivial or unrealistic	Recommendations are useful and realistic	Recommendations are creative, realistic and very useful
Input and Feedback	Content of thesis heavily depended on UU supervisor’s ideas and input	UU supervisor did not need to provide excessive input	Thesis was written with minimal input from UU supervisor
Input and Feedback	Many feedback sessions were required	Regular feedback sessions were held as scheduled	The amount of feedback needed was minimal
Timeliness	The deadline for finishing the thesis was exceeded by three months or more without valid reasons	The deadline for finishing the thesis was exceeded by less than four weeks or longer with valid reason	The thesis was finished in time according to schedule or overdue by less than four weeks with valid reason
Achievement of Internship Objectives	Accomplished few if any objectives as specified at the start of the internship	Accomplished most objectives as specified at the start of the internship	Met or exceeded all objectives as specified at the start of the internship
Content: Additional Comments

Process	Process: Insufficient	Process: Satisfactory	Process: Excellent
Organisation and Planning	Consistently failed to organize and plan work effectively	With a few minor exceptions, work was adequately organized and planned	Effectively organized and planned work; set realistic deadlines in well-balanced work plan
Organisation and Planning	Did not make a work plan and/or set few, if any, deadlines	Most deadlines in work plan were realistic	Knew how to prioritize
Quality of (daily) Work	Work was done in a careless manner and was of erratic quality	With a few minor exceptions, adequately performed most work requirements	Thoroughly and accurately performed all work requirements
	Work assignments were usually late and required review	Most work assignments submitted in a timely manner	Submitted all work assignments on time
	Made numerous errors	Made occasional errors	Made few if any errors
Obtaining and handling feedback	Asked few if any questions and rarely sought out additional information from appropriate sources	In most cases, asked relevant questions and sought out additional information from appropriate sources	Consistently asked relevant questions and sought out additional information from appropriate sources
	Was unable or slow to understand new concepts, ideas, and work assignments	Exhibited acceptable understanding of new concepts, ideas, and work assignments	Very quickly understood new concepts, ideas, and work assignments
	Was unable or unwilling to recognize mistakes and was not receptive to making needed changes and improvements	Was usually willing to take responsibility for mistakes and to make needed changes and improvements	Was always willing to take responsibility for mistakes and to make needed changes and improvements
Initiative and creativity	Had little observable drive and required close supervision	Worked without extensive supervision	Was a self-starter
	Showed little if any interest in meeting standards	Normally set his/her own goals and, in a few cases, tried to exceed requirements	Regularly approached and solved problems independently
	Did not seek out additional work and frequently procrastinated in completing assignments	In some cases, found problems to solve and sometimes asked for additional work assignments	Consistently sought new challenges and asked for additional work assignments
Dedication and Perseverance	Was not committed to the job	Was motivated to do a good job	Was highly motivated and prepared to go the extra mile
Dedication and Perseverance	Easily gave up when encountering setbacks	Was able to deal with most setbacks	Effectively coped with setbacks
Work Attitude	Was insecure and timid, and/or regularly exhibited a negative attitude	Except in a few minor instances, demonstrated a confident and positive attitude	Demonstrated an exceptionally confident and positive attitude
	Was dishonest and/or showed a lack of integrity on several occasions	Regularly exhibited honesty and integrity in the workplace	Consistently exhibited honesty and integrity in the workplace
	Displayed significant lapses in ethical and professional behaviour	Normally behaved in an ethical and professional manner	Always behaved in an ethical and professional manner
Supervision Required	Was generally unreliable in completing work assignments	Was generally reliable in completing tasks	Was consistently reliable in completing work assignments
	Did not follow instructions and procedures promptly or accurately	Normally followed instructions and procedure	Always followed instructions and procedures well
	Was careless, and work needed constant follow-up	Was usually attentive to detail, but work had to be reviewed occasionally	Was careful and extremely attentive to detail
	Required close supervision	Functioned with only moderate supervision	Required little or minimum supervision
Attendance and Punctuality	Was absent excessively and/or was almost always late for work	Was incidentally absent for a valid reason and almost always on time	Always reported to work as scheduled with no absences, and was always on-time
Organizational Fit	Was unwilling or unable to understand and support the organization’s mission, vision, and goals	Adequately understood and supported the organization’s mission, vision, and goals	Completely understood and fully supported the organization’s mission, vision, and goals
	Exhibited difficulty in adapting to organizational norms, expectations, and culture	Satisfactorily adapted to organizational norms, expectations, and culture	Readily and successfully adapted to organizational norms, expectations, and culture
	Frequently seemed to disregard appropriate authority and decision-making channels	Generally functioned within appropriate authority and decision-making channels	Consistently functioned within appropriate authority and decision-making channels
Response to Supervision	Rarely sought supervision when necessary	On occasion, sought supervision when necessary	Actively sought supervision when necessary
	Was unwilling to accept constructive criticism and advice	Was generally receptive to constructive criticism and advice	Was always receptive to constructive criticism and advice
	Seldom if ever implemented supervisor suggestions	Implemented supervisor suggestions in most cases	Successfully implemented supervisor suggestions when offered
	Was usually unwilling to explore personal strengths and areas for improvement	Was usually willing to explore personal strengths and areas for improvement	Was always willing to explore personal strengths and areas for improvement
Technical Skills	Had difficulty in understanding and applying quantitative or qualitative methods appropriate to the job	Satisfactorily employed quantitative or qualitative methods appropriate to the job	Effectively employed quantitative or qualitative methods appropriate to the job
Technical Skills	Exhibited limited facility with relevant information technology, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation and/or other software in the development of work products and the completion of work assignments	In most cases, adequately utilized relevant information technology, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation and/or other software in the development of work products and the completion of work assignments	Successfully and proficiently utilized relevant information technology, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation and/or other software in the development of work products and the completion of work assignments
Interpersonal Skills	Exhibited little or no ability or willingness to interact and communicate with co-workers	Demonstrated an acceptable ability to interact and communicate with co-workers	Demonstrated proficiency in interacting and communicating with co-workers
	Could not manage or resolve conflicts, and/or often antagonized others	Adequately managed and resolved conflicts	Managed and resolved conflicts in an effective manner
	Was unwilling or reluctant to accept constructive criticism and advice	Accepted constructive criticism and advice in most cases	Sought and willingly accepted constructive criticism and advice
Communication Skills	Often communicated in an unclear way in writing and/or orally	Communicated adequately, both in writing and orally	Communication was always clear, understandable and organized, both in writing and orally
Communication Skills	Regularly caused confusion	Usually clear and understandable
Process: Additional Comments

Presentation	Presentation: Insufficient	Presentation: Satisfactory	Presentation: Excellent
Oral Presentation	Presentation could not be understood because there was no logical sequencing of information	Work assignment was presented in a sequence that the audience could follow	Work assignment was presented in a logical, interesting, and effective sequence, which the audience could easily follow
	Intern used superfluous or no graphics or graphics did not support or relate to work assignments	Graphics supported and were related to the work assignment	Presentations used effective graphics to explain and reinforce the information presented
	Presentation could not be understood because there was no logical sequencing of information	Work assignment was presented in a sequence that the audience could follow	Work assignment was presented in a logical, interesting, and effective sequence, which the audience could easily follow
	Intern made little or no eye contact	Intern maintained eye contact with the audience with a few minor exceptions	Intern maintained eye contact with audience
	Intern read most or all of the work assignment	Intern read from notes on a few occasions	Intern seldom returned to notes
	Intern mumbled, incorrectly pronounced terms, and/or spoke too quietly	Intern used good voice dynamics and clearly enunciated terms	Intern spoke in a clear voice and used correct, precise pronunciation of terms
	Presentation rambled, was unclear, and could not be followed by the audience	Overall, the presentation was delivered in a satisfactory manner and met expectations with respect to oral communication skills	Presentation was thorough, clear, compelling, informative, and professionally delivered
	Intern lacked confidence, was uncomfortable, and could not answer basic questions.	Intern was comfortable for the most part and adequately answered questions	Intern was confident, comfortable, and answered questions effectively
Presentation: Additional Comments


Overall Performance Evaluation of Student Intern
Unsatisfactory Marginal Satisfactory Very Good Excellent

If a new internship position were available within your company/organization, would you recommend another SBM student for such a position?			No Yes
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If a position were available within your company/organization, would you recommend this student for employment?			No Yes
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* Requirements for “satisfactory” must be fulfilled as well
** In case of fraud or plagiarism, the examiner will inform the Board of Examiners of this in writing

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