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To all, 

We must all be at that point in the semester where the peer reviews are due as I was sifting through my class responses last night when this thread started up - and had questions too!

I have taught TBL style for over 4 years now and my process continues to change a little each time, with the peer reviews being the one area that I adjust the most. Lately, I have been using the method of assigning peer reviews 4 times a semester & giving a certain amount of points to a team, then allowing each member to distribute them accordingly. In addition, the last year I have offered a comment section like mentioned in this thread - "things I appreciate / things I would like to request from this team member"  I have compiled these comments and am actually going to give them to each individual in the hope that constructive criticism and/or positive feedback strengthens their teams. This is the first time I have returned comments and am a little hesitant about rocking the boat because all our teams actually get along very well. But there are some very good peer responses that I feel need to be said - like tuning the team. Positive things like - "always comes up with ideas to help the team decide, open to new ideas, if he understands something and we don't he takes time to help us, has practical experience, his amount of determination is outstanding, and so on" And of course the constructive part include comments like - "would like if he participated more, needs to be on time more often, go to bed earlier, pay more attention in class, do your homework, and so on". 

I even added a comment section for them to critique me - "things I appreciate about this instructor / request from this instructor" and apparently almost everyone is happy with me and TBL! 

So, I will stir it up today and post their grades with comments and hope the boat keeps sailing smoothly! Either way it is still better than non-TBL type instruction. 

Tim Dwyer
Oklahoma State University