Poster Judging : Cal NERDS' Faculty Centric Research Poster Judging Method
Summary
TLDRCaroline Kaine and Professor Rudy Ortiz discuss faculty judging of posters at scientific conferences. They emphasize the importance of poster composition, clarity, and the student's ability to articulate their science. The video highlights key features of effective poster design, such as layout, color scheme, and clear conclusions. Additionally, it showcases an evaluation with student Steven Chavez, focusing on his project's rationale, scientific communication, and future work.
Takeaways
- 📈 **Clarity in Poster Composition**: The script emphasizes the importance of a clear and well-organized poster layout that is easy to read and logically structured.
- 🎓 **Student's Understanding**: The student's ability to contextualize and clearly describe their science is crucial, even to judges outside their discipline.
- 🏅 **Communication Skills**: The student's communication and professionalism during the poster session are key components of the judging process.
- 🖼️ **Poster Layout**: A good poster should have an open layout with clear sections and a logical flow, making it easy for anyone to understand the content.
- 🌈 **Color Scheme**: While seemingly trivial, the color scheme of a poster is important as it affects the poster's readability and visual appeal.
- 📊 **Use of Graphs and Figures**: Graphs and figures should be clear, well-marked, and not too numerous to ensure they are easily understood from a distance.
- 📝 **Future Work**: Outlining future work in the poster shows a forward-thinking approach and can be a point of interest for judges.
- 🙋♂️ **Student Interaction**: The interaction between the student and the judges is a significant part of the judging process, where the student's understanding and presentation skills are assessed.
- 🔍 **Detailing Methodology**: The poster should clearly detail the methodology used in the research to allow judges to understand the scientific process.
- 📋 **Stickers for Organization**: Using stickers with student names and topics helps in keeping track of which posters have been judged and by whom.
- 📝 **Acknowledgements**: Properly acknowledging contributors to the research project is a sign of professionalism and good scientific practice.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of faculty judging posters at scientific conferences?
-The main purpose is to evaluate the quality of the students' work, including the poster layout, the student's ability to explain their science, and their general communication and professionalism skills.
How does faculty-centered poster judging work?
-In faculty-centered poster judging, faculty members choose which posters to judge. They are given stickers with the student's name and topic to ensure clarity and organization in the judging process.
What are the three main categories that faculty look for when judging posters?
-The three main categories are poster composition and clarity, the student's ability to put the science in context and describe it clearly, and the student's general communication and professionalism skills.
Why is the student's ability to describe their science considered more important than the poster layout itself?
-The student's ability to describe their science is crucial because it demonstrates their understanding and communication of the research, which is the primary feature of the poster session.
What features contribute to a good poster layout?
-A good poster layout should be open, well-organized, easy to read, logically ordered, and include clear bullet points, marked graphs, and a concise series of conclusions.
Why is it important for a poster to be understandable to someone outside the discipline?
-It is important because judges at conferences can come from various disciplines, and the ability to convey scientific concepts to a general scientific audience is a key aspect of scientific communication.
What advice is given regarding the size of figures in a poster?
-Figures should be large enough to be seen from a distance, such as 3-4 feet away, to accommodate busy meeting conditions where judges may not be able to stand close to the poster.
What is the significance of the future work outlined in a poster?
-Outlining future work shows the direction of ongoing or planned research, demonstrating the student's understanding of the broader implications and next steps in their scientific field.
How does the presence of acknowledgements affect the poster?
-Properly acknowledging contributors and sources of support is important for academic integrity and transparency, and it can also reflect positively on the student's professionalism.
What happens when a judge is finished evaluating a poster?
-The judge places dots at the upper right-hand corner of the poster to indicate that it has been judged, providing feedback to both the student and others in the poster area.
What is the role of the student in the judging process?
-The student plays a central role by presenting their work, answering questions, and demonstrating their understanding of the science, which is a critical part of the judging process.
Outlines
📊 Judging Posters at Scientific Conferences
Caroline Kaine and Professor Rudy Ortiz discuss the process of faculty judging of posters at scientific conferences. They highlight the importance of clarity in poster composition and the student's ability to communicate their science effectively. The video script outlines three main categories for judging: poster composition and clarity, the student's ability to contextualize and describe their science, and the student's general communication and professionalism. The script also emphasizes the importance of the science being the primary feature, with the student's discussion of the science being even more critical than the poster layout itself.
🔍 Evaluating Poster Design and Content
The script continues with a detailed evaluation of a specific poster, focusing on its layout, clarity, and the student's understanding of their scientific work. It mentions the importance of a poster being understandable to someone outside the discipline, the need for figures to be large enough to be seen from a distance, and the clarity of font size. The script also discusses the poster's outline for future work and the presentation of acknowledgements. It transitions from evaluating the poster in isolation to the importance of the student's interaction during the judging process, introducing Steven Chavez, the student who created the poster.
🤝 Engaging with the Student Presenter
In this part of the script, Caroline Kaine and Rudy Ortiz engage in a mock judging scenario with Steven Chavez, the student presenter. They ask him about the rationale behind his poster's design and layout, his choice of project, and the terminology used in his presentation. Steven explains his project, which involves artificial photosynthesis, and discusses the use of sacrificial reagents in his work. The judges also inquire about the future work outlined in his poster. The script concludes with the judges thanking Steven for his participation and emphasizing the importance of understanding the criteria for creating a high-quality poster.
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Keywords
💡Faculty judging
💡Poster composition
💡Clarity
💡Scientific context
💡Communication skills
💡Professionalism
💡Sticker
💡Color scheme
💡Future work
💡Acknowledgements
💡Sacrificial reagent
Highlights
Caroline Kaine introduces the topic of faculty judging of posters at scientific conferences.
Professor Rudy Ortiz joins to discuss the nuances of judging posters.
Faculty judges select which posters to evaluate, ensuring clarity and organization.
Stickers with student names and topics are used for organization during judging.
Three main categories for judging posters: composition and clarity, student's ability to describe science, and communication skills.
The importance of the science being the primary feature of the poster.
Rudy discusses the open layout and clear description of sections in a good poster.
The ability to understand the science from the introduction and conclusions is highlighted.
The color scheme's role in making the poster a communication tool.
The necessity for clear bullet points and not too many graphs for readability.
The importance of figures being large enough to be seen from a distance.
The minimum font size should be 16pt for clarity.
The outline of future work and acknowledgements are noted as strong points of the poster.
The student's role in poster judging is emphasized as the most important feature.
Steven Chavez is introduced as the student who created the evaluated poster.
Steven's project on artificial photosynthesis combines his interests in material science.
The rationale behind the poster design is to facilitate scientific communication.
Explanation of 'sacrificial reagent' in the context of the project.
The selection of future work areas that build upon the current project.
Final step of a judge marking the poster as evaluated with dots.
The video concludes with thanks and encouragement for future poster sessions.
Transcripts
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hello my name is Caroline Kaine and
we're here to talk with you about
faculty judging of posters at scientific
conferences and faculty will judge
posters in many different ways but the
guidelines that we will give you
especially those of you who are new as
well as students we hope will be helpful
in making your judging experience
Pleasant for you as well as pleasant for
the students let me introduce my
colleague Professor Rudy Ortiz from UC
mered who also is going to be helping
and explaining to you some of the the
vagaries and pleasures of judging
posters what I can tell you is that in a
faculty Centric poster judging this is a
poster judging
form the faculty get to pick which
posters they will judge but to be sure
that there's Clarity and that we know
which students are actually being judged
we're also given a sticker that will
have the students name
as well as the students topic to put on
top of the judging sheet right away so
that we can stay organized and be sure
that the student has the proper score at
the end but then to judging
posters there are three main categories
that I look for in a poster the first
comes when I'm approaching the poster
looking at the poster composition and
it's
Clarity the second which is the most
important actually is the student and
the student's ability to put the science
in a context and describe the science
what he or she has done in the science
and take us through the poster with the
same Clarity that I or better Clarity
than I see on the poster and then the
third is the general communication and
professionalism skills that the student
expresses during the poster judging the
science is the primary feature and the
student talking about the science is in
many ways even more important than the
poster layout
itself now we'd like to go through some
of the things that contribute to a good
poster and the features that we look for
when we're judging a poster Rudy why
don't we start with
you so taking this as an example I I
like the the way the the layout is very
open um each section of the poster is
very well described and it's an easy to
to to read that it flows well in in a in
a logical fashion logical
order and I would add too that the
poster actually is in an area of science
that's distinct from my own and yet I'm
able to come up to this poster and by
looking at the introduction and the
conclusions am able to
get some idea about how well the student
actually understands what's going on in
the science the color scheme is nice
that may sound trivial when you're
evaluating the science but it's not
because the poster is a communication
tool as
well background and then right into the
methodology this is something that when
the student does arrive to talk with us
about his poster we'll expect him to be
able to flow as easily between them as
we can now look at the poster when he's
not here too this poster is a very busy
poster and yet it's arranged to me in
such ways that there are nice bullet
points clearly marked
graphs but not too many
graphs and then a nice series of
conclusions I agree that's uh very
important especially if it's outside of
your discipline to be able to to read it
and still be able to take something away
that's very very important because when
you're at a meeting you don't know who's
going to be judging your posters and a
lot of times it's somebody outside of
your diff discipline so if you're able
to convey your science to somebody
outside that's that's really important
so I I think that's a a clear strength
of the poster but one one of the things
that I I would advise is there are a lot
of figures here
and it's hard to you know we're standing
close to it so it's very easy for us to
see this but usually the judges aren't
going to be able to to get this close if
it's a busy meeting so the figures need
to uh put you know possibly be a little
bit bigger and it would help to uh be
able to see it from you know if you're
standing uh 3 4 feet
away that certainly is true because if a
poster is popular for either the faculty
judges or for other students who want to
see it they won't be able to to
especially with older judges have the
clarity of this particular font although
this font does satisfy the kind of
minimum requirements it looks like it's
about a 16o font for most of the text
and it it should be that or larger on
almost all
counts two other things I think are
really nice about this poster is the
outline of the future
work and the way the acknowledgements
are put
together and so what you've heard us
talking about to this point are features
of a poster that you should pay
attention
to I pay attention to at least and Rudy
pays attention to when we are evaluating
how well a student has done in the
science and now what we'd like to do is
switch to having Just the Two of Us
evaluating the poster in a vacuum to
having the most important feature of a
poster judging and that is the young
scientist himself so we look forward to
talking with Steven
Chavez I want to welcome Steven Chavez
who's the student who put together this
poster Steven is a senior at the
University of California at Berkeley in
the department of chemical and
biomolecular engineering and he also did
this work up at the Joint Center for
artificial photosynthesis at the
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratories what you're going to see is
just a capsule of what would happen in
an actual judging situation where
somewhat fewer questions will be asked
but at the same time Rudy and I are
really asking these questions out of
genuine interest and they are the types
of questions that judges would ask Rudy
yeah Stephen congratulations this a nice
poster well done thank let me ask you
quickly what is the uh rationale behind
the design of the poster and this
layout so as a student the main thing
you want to do when you're presenting is
get across your science to the judge and
by picking a really organized and easy
to follow layout the judge can focus
more on what you're actually saying
rather than trying to find everything on
your
poster that's a really important feature
of scientific communication let me ask
you why you picked this particular
project to begin with all right so
that's easy I'm actually also a material
scientist so this project artificial
photosynthesis kind of combines
everything I'm interested in and that's
basically why I was able to do such
great
work and I am a biochemist and biologist
much less of an engineer and your poster
is actually very good at at using
terminology that someone with the
General Science Education would
understand except I don't understand
what a sacrificial reagent is in the
context of the current voltage
characterization so could you explain
that please okay so very briefly terms
of this project what I used the
sacrificial reagent for is as I used it
as a baseline against what are called
standard re agents and by comparing the
data between the two we can really see
how efficient these devices
are the other thing I really liked about
your poster was the way that you outlin
future work and I'm wondering how you
picked the particular areas of future
work so the future work directly
parallels this project that I did here
it just takes it to the next level in
terms of material materials design and
efficiency parameters um and by
exploring these things we can make these
devices as efficient as
possible so thank you very much for
letting us judge your poster and the
final thing a judge does before the
judge
leaves is puts dots at the upper right
hand corner of the poster so that both
the student as well as others in the
poster area will know that the students
poster has been judged by two
individuals I want to thank you very
much for the participating in the video
but also for the nice work that you've
done and the way it's really nicely
displayed so I appreciate that very much
thank you for having me and Rudy I
appreciate you're being involved in the
filming too to try and help the next
generation of Judges my pleasure um
enjoy the post recession as do we and
also that the students might enjoy the
poster session even more and understand
what goes into making a First Rate
poster thank you very much
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[Laughter]
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