63rd Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Spring 2009
Information for Poster Presentation Evaluators
Thank you very much for agreeing to judge poster presentations. Packets with your forms will be distributed at the beginning of each poster session, in the poster exhibition area. On each sheet you will find the poster number, the institution name, the name of the first author, and either the title or part of the title of the presentation. The conference program will include two poster-presentation periods, one for morning (AM) poster presentations and another for afternoon (PM) presentations.
The poster presentations have been placed into subject groups (examples: inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, health sciences, psychology). Some groups are much larger than others. For the larger groups (some have posters numbering in the teens), it did not seem appropriate to require one judge to evaluate all the posters, so some subject groups have one judge while others have up to three judges. It also did not seem appropriate to give only a single excellence award per subject group regardless of the number of posters in that group. As designed, each judge will have approximately 5-6 poster presentations to evaluate during a given poster session. You are asked to judge each assigned poster presentation, using the provided evaluation form. You are also asked to determine the most excellent presentation of the 5-6 posters that you evaluated (unless none of your assigned poster presentations is determined to be excellent). As designed, there will be approximately one excellence award given for every five presentations, perhaps as many as two or three for the larger subject groups.
You will be the only evaluator for the poster presentations assigned to you. It will be assumed that your evaluations will be unbiased and professionally handled. You may ask the poster presenter any questions that you think are appropriate.
Each student presenter will eventually see his/her poster evaluation, so please fill in the information as completely and clearly as possible. Please phrase any written comments so that they are useful to the student in improving his/her presentation. (Statements like “I did not like the poster” are not very useful to the student.) Please complete each form and include all written comments before the end of the designated poster presentation period.
By the end of the poster presentation period, please provide Dr. Donald Stearns with all the poster evaluation sheets, along with your choice for the most excellent presentation (unless none is determined to be excellent) you selected from among the poster presentations that you personally evaluated. Click here for the Poster Evaluation Form.
Have a question? Please contact Dr. Donald Stearns at dstearns@wagner.edu.