Assessment and Grading

When you participate in the Overseas Internship Program, you will be registered on NTU’s Summer Internship course, which carries 2 academic credits.

This course treats your internship as a structured academic learning experience, not just work experience, and so your internship performance will be assessed.

A minimum score of 60% is required to pass the course and receive the credits.

Course Record and Certification

Although the Summer Internship course will appear on your NTU transcript as pass/fail, your performance will be assessed using a percentage score. This score will appear on a Turing Certificate that you will receive from NTU, giving future employers clearer insight into your achievement.

What You Will Be Assessed On

Your final score will be based on two components:

70% from your mentor’s assessment of your overall internship performance
30% from NTU’s assessment of your final written reflection

Both assessments will use the same rubric (provided below), ensuring consistent and transparent evaluation.

Maintaining good professional relationships during your internship is part of what is being assessed. This includes clear and professional communication with your mentor and host organisation, timely responses, attendance at required meetings or check-ins, and sustained engagement. As mentors are often senior professionals with limited availability, you may need to be proactive in seeking feedback and maintaining appropriate visibility. Strong performance is not limited to completing tasks; it also includes reliability, engagement, and professionalism in how you work with others.

Deadlines, Responsibilities, and Deductions

Meeting deadlines, completing required hours, and fulfilling internship responsibilities will directly affect your final score.

Unless mitigating circumstances have been formally approved by NTU in advance, you will be penalised with percentage point deductions for the following reasons:

Late submission of weekly work logs (1 percentage point per day per weekly log)
Late submission of the final reflection (1 percentage point per day)

Unless mitigating circumstances have been formally approved by NTU in advance, you will receive an automatic fail for any of the following reasons:

failure to complete all required training courses before the start of the internship
leaving the internship early without prior NTU approval
failure to submit weekly work logs as required, or any work log submitted more than one week late
failure to submit the reflection, or submission more than one week late

What the Rubric Measures

The assessment rubric focuses on how effectively you meet the goals of your internship and the course reflection.

For the mentor’s assessment, this will include how you perform in the workplace, such as:

the quality and consistency of your work
your professionalism, reliability, and engagement

For NTU’s assessment of your reflection, this will include:

how clearly and thoughtfully you reflect on your internship experience
how well you demonstrate learning, insight, and development over the course of the placement
how effectively you connect your internship experience to your future academic and career plans

The rubric below explains how different levels of performance will be assessed, ranging from outstanding achievement to failure to meet minimum requirements: