The interview rationale presents a coherent and well-justified assessment of each candidate’s strengths based upon the position’s qualifications.

The interview rationale presents an assessment of each candidate, but does not identify specific strengths as related to the position’s qualifications.

The interview rationale lumps all candidates together and indicates that they meet the position’s qualifications.

The evidence provided is both adequate and reasonable (e.g., above average peer evaluations used to evaluate teaching effectiveness, statement of teaching/research philosophy used to evaluate candidate’s focus on students).

The evidence provided is generic and/or vague (e.g., candidate has taught this course in the past, therefore he/she is qualified to teach it here).

No evidence is provided (e.g., general statement that candidate meets all position qualifications).

The interview rationale includes a brief, but clear explanation of how the search committee evaluated the position’s qualifications (e.g., candidate demonstrates excellence in teaching as shown by the receipt of several teaching awards and strong student evaluations).

The interview rationale includes a partial explanation of how the search committee evaluated the position’s qualifications (e.g., the rationale addresses excellence in teaching, but does not address ability to work with diverse populations).

The interview rationale does not address how the position’s qualifications were evaluated by the search committee.

The interview rationale states how each candidate might advance the program’s and/or department’s goals with supporting evidence (e.g., the candidate’s expertise in X area—as demonstrated by his numerous publications in highly regarded peer-reviewed venues—will contribute to the program’s efforts to grow its graduate program in this area; or the candidate has expressed an interest in working with undergraduates on research).

The interview rationale states that each candidate might advance the program’s and/or department’s goals, but does not provide evidence for this claim.

The interview rationale does not provide any indication of how candidates might advance the program’s and/or department’s goals.

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