Individual Peer Review
Thank you to Dr. Brian Fraser for providing this framework for peer evaluation. In my opinion this is the most fair system available to date.
Each group member submits their own self and peer review. High-quality comments are required and should be in the form of constructive feedback and supported by evidence. Students who do not submit this review may get a 5% penalty on their mark for the project.
The comments you submit about group mates will be distributed to him/her, but the scores you assign are not. They will see the average of all the scores their group mates gave them.
Use the Peer feedback JSON generator to generate the JSON file to submit. Read the directions at the top of the tool.
Your comments should address the following elements:
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Team Contribution
- Did they contribute their fair share to the project? If not, did they only do 75% of the expected work? 50%? 10%?
- Were they easy to work with?
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Technical Skill
- Did the quality of their work meet your expectations?
- Did they do anything that impressed you?
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Communication
- Were they good at communicating with the group?
- How quickly did this person respond to messages?
- Were any difficulties resolved quickly?
- How can they improve?
Scaling from Peer Feedback
In general, students will have their overall project mark scaled by between 0.85 (15% penalty) and 1.15 (15% bonus) in accordance with the following graph. This usually has a limited impact on most students' project grades, but does recognize some differences between individual contributions. Exceptional cases will be handled manually by the instructor in order to better ensure student contribution to the project is strongly reflected in individual student grades.
(Attempts to game the system with unfair evaluations will be handled manually, and unfavourably!)
- Let A be the average of all group member evaluations of you, excluding your evaluation of yourself.
- A is clamped to be between 10 ("half effort") and 40 ("double effort").
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A student's score on the entire project will be multiplied by the following weighting factor:
weight(A) = 0.65 + 0.0225A - 0.00025A2 - This formula gives the desired properties of A = 10 gives a weight of 0.85; A = 20 gives weight 1.0; A = 40 gives weight 1.15.
- If you feel that extenuating circumstances apply to you, please submit that in the private notes section of your peer-review feedback.
- This approach is based on the work of Bill Gardner, and used by Ted Kirkpatrick.
