Peer Evaluation in an Active Learning Group Project

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Peer Evaluation in an Active Learning Group
Project
Presented atAssociated Schools of Construction
Region V Meeting September 20, 2007

• Hollis Bray-Associate Prof.
• David Manry-Associate Prof.
• Students
• Brandon BrumleyBrandon FrydayMatthew Lee
• University of Louisiana at Monroe
• School of Construction Management

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Construction Phases
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Topping Out Fall 2006
Fall 2006
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Project Enhancements Fall 2006

• More realistic
• More manageable
• Peer grading

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PROJECT
ORGANIZATION
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Peer Evaluations

• Do students learn from peer assessment?
• Do they want to assess their peers?
• Will they do a critical assessment?
• Can we devise an efficient way to carry out the
  assessment?

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Comments From Student Essays

• problems associated with employees concerning
  tardiness, work attendance, work ethics, and
  conduct...
• We did not sit down and lay out any kind of
  responsibilities for each member which, with
  hindsight, was a mistake.
• it was thought by many of our group members
  that a particular member was taking too much
  control over the project
• One setback was the lack of communication
  between our team members and sometimes just
  getting everyone to show up at the same time and
  be effective as a team.
• One of the major problems was on the subject of
  group organization and cohesiveness...
• While our group did not have total communication
  failure, communication was severely crippled.

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A Rubric
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Instructor Assigns Group Grade By Rubric
Peer Assessment in Groups By Rubric Collected
by Spreadsheet
Process
Group Evaluations Tabulated Individual Grades
Assigned
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Algorithm
The average of individual grades in a group
equals the group grade
Individual Evaluation Ratio (IER)
(Feigenbaum Holland, 1997) (Berryman, 1999)
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Thanks For Your Time