Group 4 Project Evaluation

Introduction

The Group 4 Project has an interesting twist when it comes to your grade: self evaluation and peer evaluation. What does this mean? It means you get to grade yourself and your lab partner(s). The way this is done is by confidential email as described below.

How to pass in the evaluations

Self evaluation: copy and paste the green table below into an email or into a Word document which you will complete and send to me. Give yourself an evaluation from 1 (very poor) to 7 (excellent) for each of the criteria listed.

Name (your name) _________________
Criteria for Self Evaluation	Grade out of 7
I was good at collaborating with others to complete the lab work - in other words I did my fair share of the work.
I was good at actively seeking out and acknowleding the views and opinions of others concerning how to do the lab work and how to make the digital document. (In other words, I used phrases such as "What do you think?" or "Yeah, that's a good idea.")
I was good at exchanging ideas with the others and using those ideas in the lab work and in the digital document. (In other words, I tried to express what I thought we should have done but I was also willing to listen to and use their ideas, too).

Peer evaluation: for each member in your group, copy and paste the yellow table below into an email or into a Word document which you will complete and send to me. For example, if there were two other members of your team, copy and paste this table twice. Give each of them an evaluation from 1 (very poor) to 7 (excellent) for each of the criteria listed.

Name (your teammate's name) _________________
Criteria for Peer Evaluation	Grade out of 7
He/she was good at collaborating with others to complete the lab work - in other words they did their fair share of the work.
He/she was good at actively seeking out and acknowleding the views and opinions of others concerning how to do the lab work and how to make the digital document. (In other words, he/she used phrases such as "What do you think?" or "Yeah, that's a good idea.")
He/she was good at exchanging ideas with the others and using those ideas in the lab work and in the digital document. (In other words, he/she tried to express what they thought we should have done but they were also willing to listen to and use our ideas, too).

Feel free to add any comments about yourself or about your team members if you think such comments are needed. For example, if you were absent on one of the days or if you are afraid the other students might give you a bad grade because you didn't give in the graphs on time, but in fact it was because your computer had a virus...

What if students are too nice or too mean in their evaluation?

Obviously, I will check each evaluation to see if I think it is fair. Generally, students are very honest and they are good about not putting all 7's or all 1's. I have an editorial review over these and if I think they are unfair, I will reajust them in the same way that an IB moderator would adjust my marks if he or she thought I was being too generous or too strict with my assessment of your work.

Will the others in my group know what I grade I gave them?

No. That is why this is done by email and not by paper in class. Eventually, they will know their final Personal Skills grade but it will represent several numbers put together: their own self assessment, all the assessments of the others in the group, plus my adjustment if I feel one is necessary.

On a final note, please do not ask your lab partners what grade they gave you! This takes away from the whole idea of confidentiality.

Last modification: 2008-01-20