Hello Kristie, I had a similar situation and asked the team to eliminate the member who was going to get a zero for non-attendance at any team activities or TRATs, and that they would only have the 100 pts for those team members they were rating (5) so 500 points. Best regards, Brenda Brenda Collings, BBA, MBA, CPA, CA Senior Instructor * Accounting, Faculty of Business C 506 647-6573 ON SABBATICAL UNTIL JUNE 30,2016 (I will continue to receive all emails) [University of New Brunswick] [Facebook]/uofnb<https://www.facebook.com/uofnb> [Twitter] @unb<https://twitter.com/UNB> [Instagram] @discoverunb<https://instagram.com/discoverunb/> UNB.ca<http://www.unb.ca/> Confidentiality Note: This email and the information contained in it is confidential, may be privileged and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). Any other person is strictly prohibited from using, disclosing, distributing or reproducing it. If you have received this communication in error, please reply by email to the sender and delete or destroy all copies of this message. From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Campana, Kristie L Sent: March 19, 2016 11:47 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Peer evaluation issue Hi all, I'm looking for some advice about how to address an issue with a peer evaluation. In my course, we have 7 people per group. I use their peer evaluations as a multiplier on the team-based component of their grade. Specifically, I give them 600 points that they can distribute to their 6 group members (they give themselves a 0, which is omitted from the calculation). This way, if they want to give someone credit for being a great team member, they have to take points away from at least one person in the group. I then average these points to determine what their multipliers will be. Here's a link to a blank version of the survey (created for a group of 8 members) so that you can more easily understand what I mean: https://mnsumankatopsych.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_brTC64jV7hommgZ (feel free to fill it out and click through, it won't hurt anything). The issue is that I have one student who has not come to class after the first day. We've had multiple conversations about it, but it is clear at this point she is not going to come to class, and won't drop the course. However, as you can imagine, this has caused a problem with the multiplier. Her group mates have reasonably given her a zero on her peer evaluation, which means they have an extra 100 points to distribute to other members, which results in some people getting 125% on their team grade. This is clearly not in the spirit of the evaluation, and gives members of this group a huge advantage in their grade compared to other students in the course. I would love to just eliminate her from the evaluation, but I think I need to get student ratings on her just in case she files a grade appeal. However, I am thinking that maybe I will just have them rate her separately, so that they can give her a zero without ending up with a bunch of extra points to distribute to other group members. Anyone ever run into this problem? What did you do? Kristie Campana [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Minnesota State University, Mankato ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click here.<https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1> Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website.