Bachelor's Thesis and Maturity TestLaajuus (15 ECTS)

Objective

The student concentrates on working unsupervised and carries out a Final thesis work. The student deepens his/her knowledge of his/her professional expertise and learns to take responsibility for work projects. The student learns to evaluate his/her own expertise and complements those fields of expertise in an appropriate manner.
During this process the student applies the data search methods relevant to his/her own field of study, adapts previously acquired information with new information and creates new solutions and interpretations. He/she will learn to perceive details when part of a larger context.
The student knows how to write a written report on his/her work including description, analysis and clarifying examples of the process and the results of the work.

Content

Content

- ideation, planning work
- applying theory into practice
- argumentation, justifying your own ideas
- methods
- reflection
- problem solving
- writing skills, giving technical presentations

Qualifications

Core studies mainly completed.
Professional Studies up to 150-180 ects.
The title and start of the Thesis work is accepted by the Degree Programme Head.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Thesis planning and work:
- The student can follow the plan and schedule when being guided.

Use of theory and appropriate methods:
- The student can find knowledge of his or her own field to build the theory background for the study, but needs guiding in doing so.
- The student needs guiding to select the appropriate methods to reach the goals of the work.

Gaining results and their significance:
- The student reaches some of the goals of the work and they are to some extent relevant to the professional field.

Usability and feedback from the client:
- The student reaches results which are partially usable by the client.

Conclusions, critical evaluation:
- The student can make some conclusions from the results of the work.

Written report and oral presentation:
- The student can prepare an understandable thesis report using the language guidelines, layout template and instructions.
- The student can present the work orally and communicate in an appropriate way in the presentation.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Thesis planning and work:
- The student can create the plan and schedule and follow it through.

Use of theory and appropriate methods:
- The student can find knowledge of his or her own field to build the theory background for the study.
- The student can select the appropriate methods to reach the goals of the work independently and can justify them.

Gaining results and their significance:
- The student reaches the main goals of the work and they are relevant to the professional field.

Usability and feedback from the client:
- The student reaches results which are usable by the client.

Conclusions, critical evaluation:
- The student can make correct and justified conclusions from the results of the work and can reflect on them critically.

Written report and oral presentation:
- The student can prepare a thesis report with an appropriate content and style of presentation. The student can focus the presentation to the reader and its context and can write fluently using the language guidelines. The student can structure the report clearly and logically.
- In the oral presentation the student can communicate in appropriate way and illustrate the speech in multiple ways.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Thesis planning and work:
- The student can create the plan and schedule and follow it independently.

Use of theory and appropriate methods:
- The student structures the theory to support practise. The student uses multiple new sources of information.
- The student can select the appropriate methods to reach the goals of the work and can justify them in a convincing way.

Gaining results and their significance:
- The student reaches the goals of the work. The student has solved a significant technical problem or produced new, significant information to the professional field.

Usability and feedback from the client:
- The student reaches results which are widely usable by the client.

Conclusions, critical evaluation:
- The student can make correct and justified conclusions from the results of the work and can reflect on them critically. The conclusions show the writer's own, new and interesting approach to the professional field.

Written report and oral presentation:
- The student can prepare a professional, fully finalised thesis report with an appropriate style of presentation. The student writes as a professional of the field in an illustrative and interesting way. The student can structure the report in an innovative and clear way.
- In the oral presentation the student can communicate as an expert of the field in an illustrative, interesting way using visual presentation tools.