SIT792 Minor Thesis
Assignment 5 – Poster Presentation
Introduction
Being able to professionally and clearly communicate your ideas is critical in both research and
practice careers. This poster presentation assignment will give you:
• Experience in explaining your ideas to peers
• Getting feedback on your ideas
• Summarizing your thesis project outcomes verbally
• Creating a poster to summarize your project outcomes
Poster presentation
Brief description of
assessment task
This assessment task requires the students to present their work-in-progress to a
peer audience in text and visual format. As a poster presenter, the student will be
required to combine visual and oral explanations of the proposed publication.
Students will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate professional
communication, analytical and synthesis skills and research skills at advanced
level.
Detail of student output
This is an individual assessment task based on team work. Each student is
required to deliver one poster to include the key information of the project, and a
5-minute virtual presentation (no more than 5 PowerPoint slides with voice
overlay) highlighting key aspects of their research project. The images and text
that students choose should captivate the audience to learn more at the same
time presenting information in a succinct manner.
Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
10% marked and graded
This task assesses your
achievement of these Unit
Learning Outcome(s)
ULO3 – Effectively disseminate research outcomes to a variety of audiences using
highly developed communication skills and work productively within a team of
experts in the field.
ULO4 – Demonstrate autonomy, expert judgement, adaptability, initiative,
resilience and responsibility as a practitioner or learner.
This task assesses your
achievement of these
Graduate Learning
Outcome(s)
GLO1 – through student ability to apply discipline specific knowledge and
expertise in the development of a publication.
GLO2 – through student ability to disseminate the goals and aspirations of their
scholarship and practice.
How and when you will
receive feedback on your
work
The supervisor will provide suggestions about poster presentation and feedback
on the poster, as well as mark the submissions for this task.
When and how to submit
your work
Students must submit a digital poster (A1 size without voice overlay) and a
PowerPoint presentation file with voice overlay by 5:00pm AEST, Friday 4
October 2019 (Week 12 – study period). Submission via CloudDeakin
Assignment Dropbox.
Presentation and Poster
Prepare a 3-5 minute PowerPoint presentation with voice overlay, and submit it with your digital
poster (without voice overlay) to CloudDeakin for assessment.
Prepare an A1 size digital poster (using PowerPoint or similar without voice overlay) and upload
this to CloudDeakin. Your poster should:
• Include your name, project title and supervisor, and a Deakin logo
• Outline the research area
• Say why this project topic is important
• Outline key research questions your project addressed
• Summarizes the research you did, how you did it, and key results
Guidelines
• Plan your presentation and talk carefully – use your 3-minute project presentation and
improve upon
• Use pictures and large text – it's designed to be displayed as a poster so needs to be
readable
• Keep the poster simple and concise – don’t try and squeeze too much detail onto it
• Speak slowly (not too slowly) and clearly
• Use maximum of 5 minutes
• Get someone to look at your poster / listen to your talk for feedback before submitting
Read the following page for details of the marking rubric.
Marking Rubric – SIT792 Poster Presentation
Number Fail Weak Satisfactory Excellent
1. Submission Did not submit poster. Poster submitted.
Presentation content
2. Introduction No or poor introduction of
your team, topic, supervisor.
Limited introduction quality. Good introduction. Excellent introduction to your team
and project.
3. Research area
overview,
related work
No research area or related
work overview, incomplete or
very hard to follow.
Hard to follow or incomplete. Reasonably good summary of research
area and key related work.
Excellent, concise, complete, easy to follow
summary of research area and key related
work.
4. Research
questions
and method
No problem or questions,
incomplete or very hard to
follow.
Some research problem scoping, some
research questions and method but
appear incomplete, not focused.
Reasonably good research problem
scoping, research questions, method
described.
Excellent scoping of research problems,
challenges, research questions and
method for this project.
5. Results No results provided. Results partly described. Results presented reasonably well. Excellent set of results summarized.
Poster quality
6. Poster quality Poor, incomplete. Poster is barely acceptable; poor layout,
style, illustration, hard to read photos.
Good quality poster, acceptable quality
of illustrations and photos/diagrams.
Excellent poster with good layout, style,
good use of illustrations, good size and
easy to read at a distance, etc.
7. PowerPoint
content
Poor, incomplete. PowerPoint contains most of the
material discussed but limited.
PowerPoint contains all required
material; material is good quality.
Excellent quality content of the
PowerPoint presentation.
Presentation quality
8. Presentation
quality
Poorly presented and delivered;
very hard to follow.
Presentation barely acceptable; hard
to follow; incomplete.
Well-presented and effective
presentation; some parts not as clear as
others.
Excellent presentation all round.
9. Well-paced,
enjoyable
Too fast, flow, too long, too
short.
Pace was barely OK. Good pace, not too fast or slow, about
right length; mostly an enjoyable talk.
Excellent pace and length; very enjoyable
presentation for audience.
Overall Grade Not yet to a pass
standard.
Pass - none of the
‘Fail’ items, and more
than 50% of the
‘Weak’ items.
Credit – good work - contains none of the
items in the ‘Weak’ list, most of the
elements in the ‘Satisfactory’ list above,
and elements of the excellent items.
Distinction - Very good work.
Contains none of the items in
the ‘Weak’ list, 6-9 Satisfactory
or Excellent; majority of other
items in the excellent list.
High distinction - Exceptional work.
Contains none of the items in the ‘Weak’
list, items 6-9 are Excellent; most other
items in the excellent list.
SIT792 Minor Thesis
Assignment 5 – Poster Presentation
Presentation and Poster
Guidelines
Marking Rubric – SIT792 Poster Presentation