A similar thing is happening in one of my courses. I'm not using a multiplier system: my students are just assigning each other participation grades that count as 5% of the course total.
I've just announced the following policy: the decision of which students get which grades is still completely up to them, but I'm not going to waste the time of students by making them evaluate or read the evaluations of people who have failed to attend a very low threshold of days -- 50%. If someone has missed half or more of the days of class, that student just gets a zero for that portion, period, and nobody evaluates or is evaluated by that student.
-Justin
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On Sun, 3/20/16, Brown Tom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: Peer evaluation issue
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016, 10:22 AM
For each
student in a team I average all of the points they have
received and divide it by the largest average score for that
group. So whoever got the highest score for the group has a
factor of 1 and others will receive some lower value. I
multiply the factor by the grade for the team assignment. So
at least one student gets 100% of the score for the team
assignment and others get less. If a student received zero
for their evaluations they would get zero of the team’s
score.
-Tom
Tom
Brown
Director, Part
Time MBA & GDBA Programs
Segal Graduate School
Beedie School of
Business
Simon Fraser
University
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On Mar 19, 2016, at 7:47 AM, Campana,
Kristie L <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking
for some advice about how to address an issue with a peer
evaluation. In my course, we have 7 people per group. I use
their peer evaluations as a multiplier on the team-based
component of their grade. Specifically, I give them 600
points that they can distribute to their 6 group members
(they give themselves a 0, which is omitted from the
calculation). This way, if they want to give someone credit
for being a great team member, they have to take points away
from at least one person in the group. I then average these
points to determine what their multipliers will be.
Here's a link to a blank version of the survey (created
for a group of 8 members) so that you can more easily
understand what I mean: https://mnsumankatopsych.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_brTC64jV7hommgZ (feel
free to fill it out and click through, it won't hurt
anything).
The issue is that
I have one student who has not come to class after the first
day. We've had multiple conversations about it, but it
is clear at this point she is not going to come to class,
and won't drop the course. However, as you can imagine,
this has caused a problem with the multiplier. Her group
mates have reasonably given her a zero on her peer
evaluation, which means they have an extra 100 points to
distribute to other members, which results in some people
getting 125% on their team grade. This is clearly not in
the spirit of the evaluation, and gives members of this
group a huge advantage in their grade compared to other
students in the course.
I would love to
just eliminate her from the evaluation, but I think I need
to get student ratings on her just in case she files a grade
appeal. However, I am thinking that maybe I will just have
them rate her separately, so that they can give her a zero
without ending up with a bunch of extra points to distribute
to other group members. Anyone ever run into this problem?
What did you do?
Kristie
[log in to unmask] State
University, Mankato
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