Peter,
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you and your students are having a good experience.
It's hard for me to say how many folks at UT do peer evaluations: we have about 3,000 faculty and I only really work with a handful at any given time.
In the last few years, I personally have worked with about 10 folks who have used some version of the form I sent out (in linguistics, law, French, ed. psych, history, communications, and some others). I don't know who might have "turned on" a colleague to their use, or who may have quit doing them.
So. . . hard to say how many are using them at this time. Not enough: of that I am sure! :-)
-M
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Balan
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:01 AM
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Subject: FW: How many folks at UT do peer evaluations
Thank you very much for the peer evaluation form, and the suggestions on how to implement this.
I have just used this form with the change that I asked each team member to give others a whole number score between "0 = waste of time" through to "10 = superb". (This is a scale that I use for students to score activities that I try out, and courses that I deliver.)
I returned the results in the form of their average score, and the specific comments, using individual e-mails. It took me about one and a half minutes per student to transcribe their comments into Excel, using Dragon Speak (voice to text software), and about eight minutes to set up the mail merge letter and send all e-mails.
I ran this process halfway through the lecture series, and again at the end (when they still had to spend time working together to finalise a team project). I think that it had a real impact, judging from the differences between the comments in the two rounds of the process, as well as from some very positive comments from students.
As a general point, I appreciate the helpful comments from you guys out there.
Peter Balan
Teaching courses using TBL in entrepreneurship, and in commercialisation.
University of South Australia, Australia
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sweet, Michael S
Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2010 3:43 AM
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Subject: How many folks at UT to peer evaluations
We're decentralized and low-tech.
The teachers I have worked with use some version of the attached peer eval form (some have students assign points, some don't). I *strongly* recommend folks do it at mid-term AND end-of-term.
Then they or a TA type up the comments (and tabulate points, if necessary) and send the info out to each student. I put together a quick-n-dirty "how to" handout for doing that efficiently. Also attached.
Takes about 2 hours for a class of 70-90 students.
-M
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Connors
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Sometimes it's the small things
Speaking of team evaluations . . .
How do most people handle them? Do you provide feedback for all
students or only those who ask for team comments? Do you give hard
copies or only report results orally? Do you edit in any way (e.g.,
obvious spelling errors, redact especially mean-spirited comments,
etc.)?
Thanks.
Tim
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