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Dear TBLers

I'm using TBL in a large course of General Chemistry (1st year 
undergraduate students of Engineering) with 450 students in classes of 
ca 80 students.

I have a problem with the peer evaluation in one team, and I'd like to 
get suggestions before I make a decision.

This is a team of 6 members in which one of the students contributed 
mostly(apparently to me). This conclusion is confirmed by the marks 
obtained in the final exams (she scored 4 points above the other team 
members in a 0-20 scale). Peer evaluation was performed before the 
scores of the final exams were known. Students distributed the 100 
points by the other team members and submitted the evaluations directly 
to me. Only the final sums were released. Probably due to conflicts 
within the team, this student ended up with 98 points and two of the 
others got above 110. She is complaining the evaluation was clearly 
unfair, and I'm inclined to agree.

I'm considering several options:

- Do nothing
- Ask the team if everyone feels comfortable with the final sums and, if 
not, repeat the evaluation
- Repeat the evaluation, this time openly

I'm sure this should happen frequently in TBL. I had a similar problem 
before, but more evident, with a rather small team (4 members). At that 
time I "vetoed" the result and repeated the evaluation.

It would be great if someone could help.

Thanks,
Joao

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Joao Aires de Sousa
Departamento de Quimica, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Tel: (+351) 21 2948300  x 10907  Fax: (+351) 21 2948550
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www: http://joao.airesdesousa.com