Both of these suggestions are great - peer evaluation and using GitHub or another tool to track evaluations. Another thing I sometimes do in a group project situation is have students add a "Personnel" or "Contributions" section, where they need to list each of their names and write about what aspects of the project they took the lead on and contributed to. I think for many students, when they have to "claim" parts of the project officially in writing, it feels a little more real and like there's some weight to actually making a significant contribution vs free riding. They also might get some real pushback from their peers if at the end of the project someone claimed to take lead on something that they actually contributed little to, and become apparent to the instructor.
Good luck! On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Erika Mesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jarek, > > > > I teach a lot of group projects here at RIT. Peer evaluations is a huge > element of being able to assess contributions. I also have groups keep > everything in GitHub so that I can objectively see evidence of what they > report in the peer evals. I then generally say that I “reserve the right” > to adjust a student’s grade up or down based on the evals + my observations > of their engagement in the project. > > > > Catme.org is another great resource about peer evals and managing group > work. > > > > --Erika > > > > Erika S. Mesh, GOL-2573 > > Visiting Lecturer, School of Interactive Games & Media > > Rochester Institute of Technology > > [email protected] > > > > *From:* Jarek Bryk via discuss <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2019 9:41 AM > *To:* discuss <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [discuss] Ideas needed for asessment of group-based data > analysis project > > > > Hi, > > > > The projects would be group responsibility and they will be of sufficient > complexity that working on them only during the class will not be > sufficient (at least not for all groups). I can also imagine a scenario > where a group decides to split tasks to different individuals (and of > course we cannot control what students would work on outside the class). So > I think the answer to your question is mostly - but not entirely - in-class > group work :-) This group work throughput the project is what assessment of > is giving me headaches. > > > > Best > > Jarek > > > > On 18 January 2019 at 13:56:21, Leinweber, Katrin ([email protected]) > wrote: > > Hi Jarek, > > That sounds interesting! One question to clarify: Will the students work > on the group projects only together during the class (thus creating a > pair-/mob-programming-like situation) or also individually outside of class > (and for example bringing completed subtask to the next time their group > meets)? > > As I understand this now, I think the two different situations may have > very different biases attached to the perception of individual > contributions. > > Kind regards, > > Katrin > > University of Huddersfield inspiring tomorrow's professionals. > > > This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you > receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it > from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the > business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and > will accept no liability. > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tc92aacda71839af9-Mc62356caa46fd2bbde0a7ad4> > -- Sarah R. Supp <http://www.sarahsupp.org> Assistant Professor Data Analytics Denison University my impactstory <https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-0072-029X> ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tc92aacda71839af9-Ma07659a54ae4ccb9c5560237 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
