Hi John, I used to use the Fink method and had similar issues. I inflate or deflate both the team quiz and the application exercise points in a student's grade and set a threshold below which a student fails the course. Some years ago I switched to the Koles method of doing the teammate evaluations. Students rate each other on 12 categories of performance as a teammate and then offer two qualitative comments, one identifying the teammate's greatest strength, the other making one suggestion for improvement. I find the feedback instrument teaches the students about being a good teammate. I establish ranges of scores that will lead to inflation/deflation of the team points in the grade and bound the bump or reduction at between 5 and 10% inflation or deflation. Here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFDQBLJoqjn4ezua50ke0aARJix_hZUSuN5XSZpnXTXvvAUw/viewform?usp=sf_link> is the form I used this term. "Never" = 0; "Always" = 3 points. Cheers, Phil On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 4:27 AM John Gotwals < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m looking for some peer evaluation guidance. > > I use peer evaluations to adjust students’ averages across the team > quizzes. I use the Fink Method to conduct this adjustment. This is where > the ratio of the student’s average peer evaluation score and the team’s > average peer evaluation score is multiplied against their average across > the team quizzes. > > This works great, except in cases where there is one team member that gets > a peer evaluation score that’s much, much lower than their teammates. This > pulls down the team average and results in the person with the low > evaluation taking a big hit on their team quiz score while the other team > members get a big boost (sometimes adjusting their team quiz scores well > above 100%). > > To deal with this I’ve thought of treating the team member with the really > low evaluation as an outlier, removing their score from the adjustment > calculations, and just applying a set deduction to their team quiz average. > The challenges with this approach are: > > - What criteria do I use to identify outliers? How much lower do their > peer evaluation scores have to be from those of their teammates? > - How much of a set deduction should I apply? > > Has anyone else dealt with this issue? Any suggestions or thoughts? I’m > all ears! > > Thanks, > John > > -- > ********************************* > John K. Gotwals, Ph.D. > <https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/G/jgotwals/node/17457> (he/him) > Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator > School of Kinesiology <http://kinesiology.lakeheadu.ca/> > Lakehead University <https://www.lakeheadu.ca> > 955 Oliver Rd. > Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1 > Canada > phone: 807 343-8010 ext 7952 > > > *Lakehead University resides on the traditional territory of the Fort > William First Nation **and the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, > collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy**. I am grateful for > the opportunity to base my work out of that territory. * > > *Are you ok?* Our How to ask for Help > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CShaNXhajf0vbT8oCmBao3aQo_HX45QT/view> > at Lakehead guide was made for you. > > *Need to talk to someone right now?* Good 2 Talk <https://good2talk.ca/> > is a free, confidential 24/7 post-secondary student helpline. Call > 1-866-925-5454 or text GOOD2TALKON to 686868. > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click here. > <http://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. > -- [log in to unmask] Pacific University inspires students to think, care, create, and pursue justice in our world. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: http://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.