Hi Christine, We do peer evaluations twice a semester Once formative about 1 month in and once summative at the end of 3 months. Comments from students are released....students are coached in "Making Feedback Helpful" (using Michaelsen article) Interesting one of my star instructors is measuring whether students find the simple (divide the money) evaluation and rubric based evaluation more fair....early indications are that the students think the rubric is more fair. We use an online application to do our evaluations. http://ipeer.apsc.ubc.ca/home/ --------------------------------- Also, this same instructor has begun to allow teams to develop their own criteria (al la Derek Lane) For more on this approach, check out Derek's talk at http://tbl.apsc.ubc.ca/conferences/2007/ ------------------------------------ I use the 2 simple's per term.....and tell students that average evaluations will get them 75%....therefore If they give everyone 10 out of 10 then they are average. Another instructor here uses the group product multiplier (i.e. if I get 11 out of 10 from my peers then I will get the group grade plus 10%) All this is well explained at http://faculty.ucmo.edu/teambasedlearning/docs/TBL%20-%202%20methods_pee r%20eval%20scores.pdf ----------------------------------------- The new TBL book has a whole chapter on various peer evaluation approaches http://styluspub.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?productid=162587 Also, Ruth Levine et al....their article is a good read about peer evaluation http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/31/1/19.pdf Hope that is helpful Jim -----Original Message----- From: Team Learning Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christine Kuramoto Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: weighting the grades Hi all, Thank you for all of your comments and suggestions on the RATS and IF-AT forms! My next question is, how often and when do you do the peer evaluations? And further, since I'm teaching Japanese students and cuturally they may not be very willing to help in setting up the percentages for grades (how much weight goes to individual work, group work, exams), any suggestions for weighting the grades that have been successful for you would be welcome! Christine -- ******* Christine Kuramoto, Assistant Professor: Medical English Kyushu University, Department of Medical Education Faculty of Medical Sciences 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan Phone: (+81)92-642-6186 Fax: (+81)92-642-6188 E-mail: [log in to unmask]