DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

CSE 254 SPRING 2007

Grading Form for Final Project Reports

                             

                            Author:
 

criterion max score
abstract informative about methods and results 3
introduction insightful on background and motivation
3
exciting and important topic and approach
3
well-chosen starting point for technical work (e.g. existing algorithm)
3
clear and sensible motivation for technical approach (e.g. new algorithm) 3
well-designed technical approach (avoiding arbitrary heuristics)
3
precise and reproducible description of technical work
3
sensible implementation decisions (code reuse, choice of PL, etc.)
2
sufficiently conclusive experiments (large datasets, lesion studies, etc.)
3
well-designed, well-described, reproducible experiments
3
understandable presentation of results, preferably graphical
3
clear, correct analysis of results (including statistical significance)
3
insightful discussion of all major experimental results
3
exciting and useful results with general applicability
3
appropriate organization (logical, not chronological) and easy-to-read plain writing style 
3
correct spelling, grammar, and choice of words
3
citations in all necessary places with full bibliographic data
3
total
50

Letter grades for CSE 254 have the following meanings: