Evaluating Your Group Contributions
Evaluating Your
Performance and your Teammates’
Spend 5-10 minutes in
your group reviewing each person's contributions to the project. Discuss such things as:
Who
collected what information on which cities
Who wrote what
portions of the report
Who
prepared the graphics
Who
edited and/or word-processed the written report
After you have finished
with your group discussion, please individually write brief—confidential--memos
to me in which you assign a percentage to each person's contribution to the
whole project. These percentages must total 100%.
For example, in
assessing the contributions of her team's members, Sondra allocates percentages
as follows:
Louie
drafted most of the written report and
did
the editing and paste-up; no absences.......................................... 40%
Felicia
designed the pages and created the
charts
and tables; she was absent 2 out of 5 meetings......................... 25%
Sondra
did most of the overall planning, collated the
drafts,
and assembled the final document............................................ 35%
TOTAL
(must equal 100%)……..100%
Calculating Individual
Grades
First, I calculate a simple
average of each person's contribution, based on self- and peer-assessments.
To continue with the
earlier example:
Sondra's assessment of herself............................................ 35%
Felicia’s assessment of Sondra............................................ 40%
Louie's assessment of Sondra.............................................. 40%
TOTAL............................ 115%
Sondra's average contribution
= 38% (115% ¸3
= 38%)
Next, I compare the
average contribution figure to a deviation chart:
|
2-person group |
3-person group |
4-person group |
5-person group |
Expected % |
Adjustment factor |
|
35 |
23 |
18 |
14 |
70 |
-3/3 |
|
40 |
27 |
20 |
16 |
80 |
-2/3 |
|
45 |
30 |
23 |
18 |
90 |
-1/3 |
|
50 |
33 |
25 |
20 |
100 |
0 |
|
55 |
37 |
28 |
22 |
110 |
+1/3 |
|
60 |
40 |
30 |
24 |
120 |
+2/3 |
|
65 |
43 |
33 |
26 |
130 |
+3/3 |
Finally, I add the plus
or minus adjustment factor to the grade for the project as a whole to arrive at
each individual's grade. To return to
Sondra and her colleagues, if their project as a whole received a grade of B,
since Sondra's average contribution was 38%, her adjustment would be +1/3 of a
grade, or a B+.
Summer Session 2001