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Judging
Information for Presenters
You have worked hard on your research and presentation! Please remember that research is an ongoing process. A presentation is one stage in this journey. Receiving feedback from judges will help you strengthen your work for future presentations and may even inspire new ideas.
At the WVU Undergraduate Research Symposia, each presentation will be evaluated by at least two faculty, staff or graduate student judges. Judges may or may not be from your specific discipline and may not identify themselves. They will rotate through the posters during session times and may ask you questions about your project and your role in the research.
- Some tips:
- Be yourself.
- Be honest.
- Be open to new ideas.
- If you don't know the answer, it’s okay to say so. Try to suggest the name of someone who might.
After the event, you will automatically have access to the judges’ feedback following the event. This feedback is intended to be constructive and supportive as you continue developing your research and presentation skills. Feedback will also be used to help select winners and runners-up in each category.
If you need to step away briefly, please leave a note on a post-it indicating when you will return (e.g. “I will be back in 5 minutes!”). Judges will then know to return to review your work.
Judging Rubrics
Below are links to the judging rubrics that will be used during the symposium. In each category of the rubric, judges will assign a rating ranging from Poor to Excellent and may also provide qualitative comments. This feedback offers a valuable opportunity to strengthen your presentation for future symposia, presentations or professional conferences
Poster Presentations:
STEM, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Oral Presentations:
Information for Judges
- 'Elements of the presentation that were strong included...'
- 'The most impactful part of the presentation was...'
- 'The student may wish to work on...'
- 'A stronger presentation would have...'
- 'Did you consider...'
Judges Instructions
Judging will be conducted using the Symposium Judging Portal on ForagerOne, which can be accessed on a smartphone, ipad or laptop.
- To access your judging assignments:
Log in to the 8th Fall Symposium platform on ForagerOne.
Go to ‘My Events’.
Under ‘Events I’m Registered For’, click View next to 8th Annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Select the ‘Reviews’ tab to access your judging assignments.
Began reviewing! You can review abstracts prior to the event, but please do not complete any judging rubrics until you have attended the in-person presentations at the Symposium.
