The assessment criteria for master´s degree study modules are as follows starting from the spring 2025 implementations. The assessment criteria for ongoing study modules can be found in the implementation plans.
Assessment criteria
Grade 5, excellent
The student is able to:
- Knowledge base
- create a coherent knowledge base by making diverse use of both domestic and international sources.
- critically analyze current and relevant scientific sources.
- apply the knowledge base to various workplace contexts with critical consideration.
- highlight relevant and critical perspectives related to the knowledge base.
- Development
- develop new well-founded solutions to demanding research, development and/or innovation activity problems by utilizing an appropriate development process model or method.
- act as a developer in complex, unpredictable and/or development tasks that require new strategic approaches.
- Creativity
- evaluate matters openly and boldly from multiple perspectives and construct new, innovative and functional perspectives based on existing knowledge.
- Communication
- communicate convincingly orally and in writing, taking the audience into account.
- use creative means in communication.
- Working skills, responsibility and independence
- apply knowledge and skills responsibly and independently.
- produce responsible and ethical solutions with justification.
- organize and manage one’s own activities.
- plan and schedule one’s work systematically.
- act in situations requiring tolerance of uncertainty, overcoming challenges independently and with justification.
- work constructively and purposefully in collaboration with others.
Grade 3, good
The student is able to:
- Knowledge base
- create a relevant knowledge base using and analyzing both domestic and international scientific sources.
- apply the knowledge base to various workplace contexts demonstrating personal thinking.
- consider critical questions related to the knowledge base.
- Development
- develop justified solutions to research, development and/or innovation activity problems using a model or method of the development process.
- work as a developer in development tasks that require complex and new approaches.
- Creativity
- evaluate matters openly from different perspectives and build something original and functional based on existing knowledge.
- Communication
- communicate expertly orally and in writing.
- make versatile use of communication methods.
- Working skills, responsibility and independence
- apply knowledge and skills demonstrating responsibility and independence.
- produce solutions that demonstrate responsibility and ethicality.
- organize one’s activities according to agreed schedules.
- operate independently in situations requiring tolerance of uncertainty.
- work constructively with others.
Grade 1, satisfactory
The student is able to:
- Knowledge base
- create a justified knowledge base on the topic using research-based sources (e.g. non-peer-reviewed scientific texts).
- apply the knowledge base to various workplace contexts.
- pose essential questions about the topic under consideration.
- Development
- develop justified solutions to development problems.
- work in development tasks.
- Creativity
- examine matters openly from different perspectives and design functional solutions based on existing knowledge.
- Communication
- communicate clearly both orally and in writing.
- use means of communication.
- Working skills, responsibility and independence
- plan and carry out work in accordance with schedules.
- act demonstrating responsibility, independence and ethicality.
- act in uncertain situations.
- work together with others.
Shared generic competencies (level 7) proposed by ARENE, the Rectors’ Conference of Universities of Applied Sciences
Competencies are assessed in context with the evaluations of each study unit.
Learning to learn
The student
- is able to assess and develop their expertise in a versatile and goal-oriented manner throughout different phases of their career and life.
- is able to acquire, critically evaluate and produce knowledge taking into account perspectives from different fields.
- is able to develop and lead the community’s goal-oriented, continuous learning.
Operating in a workplace
The student
- can develop and lead multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
- can develop the communication and interaction culture of work communities.
- can develop and lead the comprehensive wellbeing of the work community.
- utilize the opportunities of technology and digitalization in development
and management. - promote the resilience of the work community.
Ethics
The student
- is able to promote ethically sustainable practices and the implementation of ethical reflection in various operating environments.
- promote the realization of professional ethical principles and values.
make decisions considering individual, communal and societal
perspectives. - promote the realization of diversity and accessibility.
- implement the principles of good scientific practice and promote their application in their work community.
- is able to lead socially impactful activities based on ethical
values
Sustainable development
The student
- is able to apply knowledge of sustainable development and visions of the future comprehensively as the basis for sustainable solutions.
- is able to analyze and assess the systemic dependencies of multidisciplinary complex problems and the various dimensions of solutions
- is capable of leading the search for, adoption of, and consolidation of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work community.
Internationality and multiculturalism
The student
- is able to develop practices that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- is able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global developments and phenomena.
- is capable of international interaction, communication and developing activities in their field.
Proactive development
The student
- produces new knowledge and renews practices by combining expertise from different fields.
- is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply
different research and development methods.
is able to develop new customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable
solutions anticipating the future. - is able to analyze the current situation and anticipate the future of their field and
changes in the operating environment.