Hi all,

My answer may not be as relevant as some of the others since I use the Fink method of multiplying peer eval scores by the points earned for team-based RATs/assignments/etc.

I give full credit to students for their peer eval unless two or more of their teammates give them a score of 85% or lower. Aside from poor performance, there are a range of other factors that can affect whether a student receives a low peer eval score. Sometimes there are personality conflicts. Sometimes a given student gives very low peer scores generally. Only penalizing students where there are multiple witnesses of a student's lackluster performance eliminates much of the score deviance that would otherwise be due to these extraneous factors. When a student does receive two scores of 85% or below, I average all of their peer eval scores and that is the score that is multiplied by all of their team-based grades.

One happy benefit of this procedure is that if one student on a team fails to turn in a peer eval, it has no effect on grades of team member if all other peer evals in the team are above 85% (which is most of the time in my classes). This is because, even if the missing student were to give one or more team members poor scores, he would be a single data point, and without any corroboration by other team members, that single poor score wouldn't affect peer eval grades.

This procedure has worked well for me, and it's very quick since peer evals only have to be calculated for a few students in each section.

Robert White

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From: Robert Brekken [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: incentivizing team evaluations

Hi-
I have used a similar format as Mark, but I have students complete their evaluations after they have taken their final exam. This seems to be the best way to get feedback from all of the students. The downside is that I have to manually compute their scores.
Bob

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>>> Mark Stevens 01/03/13 1:18 PM >>>
Jennifer -

I have my students complete the peer evaluations in class (on paper) on the last class day of the semester, which eliminates the possibility of students "forgetting" to do them. I have to enter their peer evaluation scores by hand into my grade spreadsheet, but that isn't a huge problem as my classes are relatively small (usually 10-30 students).

- Mark

On 1/3/2013 9:27 AM, Jennifer Imazeki wrote:

Hi all,

Has anyone else had issues with students who do not complete the team evaluations at the end of the semester? My students complete theirs online, though the LMS, and there are always a couple students who 'forget'. This fall, there were more than usual (at least seven out of a class of 55); one team was particularly bad so the resulting scores only came from three of the six members. I do make the consequence fairly severe - if they do not complete the evaluations, then they do not get to use the Team RA scores (that is, the weight that would have been given to the Team RAs is instead given to their individual RAs, which are generally substantially lower). For most students, this has the effect of lowering their final semester grade by at least a plus/minus, sometimes more. Of course, when they see their grade, THEN they remember that they were supposed to do the evaluations but it's too late since all the grades are submitted. But I've had to deal with a lot of whining...

What strategies do you all use to make sure the evaluations get done?

thanks,

Jennifer

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