End-of-Project Review
At the end of your project, when you are basking in the glorious success of your team, showing off your work to friends and family, and saying, "I didn't know I had it in me!", it's time for some more honest and straightforward review. It's time to participate in helping establish people's grades.
WHAT?!? My team members have a say in my grade?!? If I'd known that, I wouldn't have been such a schlub all semester.
Yes, unlike 'group work' in which you all got the same grade no matter how little work somebody did, here we are going to try our hardest to fairly reward people for their extraordinary efforts and to establish boundaries. Nobody likes a free-loader, and it's part of my responsibility as a teacher to hold you accountable and help you learn how to hold each other accountable for your actions. So, depending on the evaluations of the team members, as well as on my ongoing observations of your contributions to the team, your individual grades may vary widely.
Here are the instructions for your formal end-of-project review:
Assign each team member a percentage score reflecting the percentage of the overall work she or he contributed (eg. #1 did 40% of the work, #2 did 20% of the work). It's nice to think that in a team of four everybody would do exactly 25% of the work, but that's not reality.
For each team member, write their two strongest points and two areas in which they could improve (eg. listening to others, being reliable, quality of work, etc.)
Describe any problems that arose during the project. Additionally, if you think that a team member may implicate you in a problem, you may explain your side of the story here.
Type up your evaluation of each student, put your name on it, and submit it through Blackboard. I will consider these evaluations, along with other information, such as my own observations, when determining individual grades for this project.
© Amy C. Smith 2013
WHAT?!? My team members have a say in my grade?!? If I'd known that, I wouldn't have been such a schlub all semester.
Yes, unlike 'group work' in which you all got the same grade no matter how little work somebody did, here we are going to try our hardest to fairly reward people for their extraordinary efforts and to establish boundaries. Nobody likes a free-loader, and it's part of my responsibility as a teacher to hold you accountable and help you learn how to hold each other accountable for your actions. So, depending on the evaluations of the team members, as well as on my ongoing observations of your contributions to the team, your individual grades may vary widely.
Here are the instructions for your formal end-of-project review:
Assign each team member a percentage score reflecting the percentage of the overall work she or he contributed (eg. #1 did 40% of the work, #2 did 20% of the work). It's nice to think that in a team of four everybody would do exactly 25% of the work, but that's not reality.
For each team member, write their two strongest points and two areas in which they could improve (eg. listening to others, being reliable, quality of work, etc.)
Describe any problems that arose during the project. Additionally, if you think that a team member may implicate you in a problem, you may explain your side of the story here.
Type up your evaluation of each student, put your name on it, and submit it through Blackboard. I will consider these evaluations, along with other information, such as my own observations, when determining individual grades for this project.
© Amy C. Smith 2013
