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Feedback can be difficult to give and receive but it is important. By making its receipt optional you may be giving the message that it is less important. 
I give the students the following:
1) the reason for the feedback
2) Instructions in how to give feedback ("Making feedback helpful" by Larry Michaelsen)
3) A midpoint formative feedback session that the students complete on-line, but then they get the results and have to sit down face to face and discuss the group process with each other
4) a final summative feedback which is a percentage multiplier of their group grade. 
I give everyone their feedback unfiltered. I read the comments and they are almost never unprofessional although there are rare exceptions.  
On occasion a student will come talk to me about their experience with the peer evaluation but that is also rare. 

Ruth Levine
UTMB Galveston

-----Original Message-----
From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Connors
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:25 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: How I handle team evaluations at UTPA

I also put the team evaluation form on Bb as an assignment.  Students  
complete the form and turn it in through the appropriate assignment  
link on Bb.  I do not accept them late.  Completion of the evaluation  
form counts toward both their individual grade and team maintenance  
grade.  (I know it is not in the true spirit of TBL but I have pre- 
determined grading for the class:  70% = individual performance; 20% =  
team performance; 10% = team maintenance.)

What I have not done is return comments to all students.  I have made  
comments available to students on request - i.e., they come to my  
office and I share the comments with that individual student.

Since I am flying blind with TBL (kinda making it up/adapting it as I  
go), team evaluations is the area where I have the most concerns  
(hence my original question about asking how others handle these  
evaluations).  To date I have not had any complaints but I wonder if I  
am doing the teams a disservice by not sending the feedback from their  
peers out to them whether or not they want it.  What is at risk vs.  
what can be gained?

Tim


On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Sweet, Michael S wrote:

>> "It is very easy - I put the file on blackboard for them to  
>> download."
>>
>
> So, am I right in reading this that you put the blank peer eval form  
> on Blackboard, they download it and fill it in, then they send it  
> back to you?
>
> How long do you wait for late folks to get theirs in before sending  
> out what you have?
>
> -M
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On  
> Behalf Of Erica Hunter
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How I handle team evaluations at UTPA
>
> I also do this. I tell them to do honest and constructive feedback  
> because
> their teammates might not know that they are doing something bad  
> (what?
> texting all period annoys my team?). It is very easy - I put the  
> file on
> blackboard for them to download.
>
> Regarding nasty comments, I haven't had this issue. I do tell them  
> that if I
> find their comments inappropriate they will be asked to redo them  
> and they
> will be considered late. I have a pretty stiff late penalty (2  
> points off
> final grade) and have NEVER had an issue with bad comments.
>
> Erica

Timothy D. Connors
Professor of Theatre
Central Michigan University

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