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Evaluation

The Final Grade for the Capstone Project is determined by the Capstone Committee, who evaluate the student's performance on the following:

Component Points Comment
Capstone Report 60 Rubric
Capstone Presentation 25 Rubric
Capstone Workshop 5 See Assignments
Capstone Chair Evaluation 5 See Eval Form
Capstone Mentor Evaluation 5 See Eval From
Total 100

Grade Determination

The Final Capstone grade is calculated using the Capstone Project Final Evaluation Form (an Excel file).

  • Capstone Project Final Evaluation Form

    This Evaluation Form is a Microsoft Excel Workbook that allows you to compile the grades from all committee members and calculate the final grade. This workbook has several sheets that should be filled out as follows:

    • All Capstone Committee members should fill out the "Report and Presentation" Sheet.
    • Mentors should complete the "Mentor Evaluation" Sheet
    • Capstone Chairs should fill out the Chair Evaluation and Enter the Capstone Workshop Grade
    • The Capstone Chair collates the grades from the other committee and submits the compiled the Capstone Project Evaluation document.

Download Evaluation Form

Rubrics

To aid in scoring the Report and Presentation assignments, we have created the following rubrics:

Capstone Report Rubric Capstone Presentation Rubric

Comprehensive Exam Signature Form

In addition to grading the Capstone Project, Committee members must also complete and sign the official Master of Science Comprehensive Exam Signature Form from the Graduate School Office.

For this report, Committee Members must sign off on one the following three options:

  • Pass
  • Pass with Conditions
  • Fail

To successfully graduate from the MHA program and to participate in the Graduation Commencement activities, students must receive a full "Pass" (with no conditions) on this form.

Criteria for a "Pass"

Often the timing between grading the Capstone Project and submitting the Comprehensive Exam Report are not aligned. So, Committee Members may need to sign off on the Comprehensive Exam Report before the Capstone Report is finalized and ready to be graded.

Committee Members may sign off on a "Pass" if they are in consensus and if the student has accomplished the following:

  1. Submitted a nearly complete draft of the Capstone Report (two weeks prior to the presentation)

  2. Successfully presented their Capstone Presentation (and received a passing grade).

A "nearly complete" draft of the Capstone Report should need only minor revisions and/or some minor data analysis. Significant gaps in the creation of the deliverable, data collection, or in data analysis would not qualify as "nearly complete." Interpretation of the extent of needed revisions may differ between Committee Members. If any committee member is concerned that the Draft still requires significant edits, they should communicate this concern to the Capstone Committee Chair. The Chair should then convene the Committee to discuss these concerns and reach a unanimous decision upon whether the student should receive a Pass or one of the other options.