Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ics!kolender From: kolender@ics.uci.edu (Kurt Olender) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Group projects Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 90 16:24:29 GMT References: <1990Jul17.120036.8944@pdn.paradyne.com> <804@qusunitg.queensu.CA> <1990Jul19.215334.28746@nmt.edu> <51556@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: ICS Dept, UC Irvine Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: bastille.ics.uci.edu In-reply-to: sadlerl@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu's message of 20 Jul 90 15:30:13 GMT >I am a great believer in confidential peer review. If you >want to know whether someone did their share of the work, >ask the other people on the team (in private). I don't >think that someone on a successful team should get a good >grade if that person didn't do a fair share of the work. At Colorado State, we've used a peer review form developed by a PhD in Industrial Psychology (who happened to be the wife of one of the instructors of the Software Engineering course) that is much like the sort of annual performance evaluation used in industry. We developed a simple mail-based method of having the students submit the forms and a simple AWK-based system to process the results. As long as the results are based relative to how people did within their own group and not tied to an absolute scale, we've found it worked fairly well and gave the students a taste of the way it runs in the "real world".