I permit teams to give everyone the same mark if they wish. This has
happened a couple of times in the past but not very often. I have found
students to be pretty responsible about giving more/less marks to their
peers when warranted. The couple of times when everyone received 100% on
the team for participation, I had to agree with them - those couple of
teams really did seem to be well integrated with different members taking
on leadership roles at different times.
The reason this works in my peer evaluation system is that they do not get
extra marks. The peer evaluation is a multiplier that I apply to their
team-earned marks. So if they all get 100% that simply means that they all
get 100% of the marks awarded to them for their tRATs and Apps. If someone
gets 80% or 120% on their peer evaluation they then are awarded 80% or 120%
of their team earned marks. What keeps it in check from everyone receiving
more than 100% is that I only provide them with sufficient marks to award
everyone in their group 100%. So if someone earns more than 100, that means
someone else needs to be awarded less than 100.
This system is described in the Team-Based Learning book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/157922086X?tag=t0538-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=157922086X&adid=192GSAQEPNXW6Q86JCFC&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teambasedlearning.org%2FNewBooks
Cheers
Neil
On Sunday, March 16, 2014, Bradetich, Judith <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I administered peer evaluations mid-term, and reminded them they were
> not to give everyone on their team the exact same number of points, because
> not everyone does equal work, yada-yada-yada. However, I have had several
> teams try to "outsmart" the system by agreeing among themselves who will
> get a 9 or 11 from which team member, in essence making it so that everyone
> ultimately ends up with 40/40 points. I did have them do them in class, as
> I hadn't had time to put them on-line. Not sure if it would have made a
> difference. Suggestions??
> Judi
>
> Judi Bradetich, M.S., M.M.
> Lecturer, Development and Family Studies
> Dept. of Educational Psychology
> University of North Texas
>
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