Dear Colleagues,

There are good software systems for student team contribution evaluation. I have been using SparkPlus for 3 years; it is quick to set up, it is robust, it allows me to set the evaluation criteria and rating scales. In particular, it gives me metrics that I use to moderate individual marks for team assignments. You can check this out at: http://spark.uts.edu.au/

There are workshop sessions at the TBLC Florida Conference in March 2015 that address team contribution evaluation, and there will be plenty of people who will be more than happy to discuss their experiences – I look forward to seeing you there!

Peter Balan

Teaching entrepreneurship and commercialisation

University of South Australia, Australia

From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sweet, Michael
Sent: Friday, 19 December 2014 12:18 AM
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Subject: Excellent, free online peer evaluation system for TBL

Friends,

Folks may already be aware of this, but this semester I piloted TEAMMATES, an online peer evaluation system run out of the National University of Singapore.

In my opinion, it is superior to CATME in ease-of-use, and I used it to exactly replicate my existing form and process.  

Students need not create an account, and you can cut-n-paste a spreadsheet of student names into a web field and it automatically makes correct team associations.

I highly recommend this system.  It’s here:  http://teammatesv4.appspot.com   (with a pretty self-explanatory Video Tour on the front page).

-Michael

Michael Sweet, Ph.D.

Senior Associate Director

Center for Teaching & Learning Through Research

Northeastern University

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