It is always hard as teachers, for us to judge how well our students work in groups. As we meet with various teams, inevitably we miss what occurs in the others. So, rather than evaluate the groups myself, for our novel studies, I asked my students to work together to evaluate each other.
Last week, students filled out an online Google Form where they self evaluated as well as evaluated their group members. Then I took the data and created an excel sheet with the names of the students and their evaluations next to them (see below).
Students were then given a handout with the following questions:
- With your group, look over the evaluations of your members. Please remember this does not include your self-evaluation.
- As a group, what areas are you struggling in?
- This week, how could your ENTIRE group work together to improve these areas?
- If your group has 100 points to divide up amongst members based on their work, respect for others, on task behavior etc., how would your group divide up the points? Note, everyone does NOT have to earn the same number of points. You must come to an agreed upon decision as a group and be able to justify why you divided the points up as you did.
- As an individual, what areas do your group members wish you could improve in?
- This week, how could you individually improve in those areas?
In their group, they worked together to answer the above questions. Listening to the conversations of the students I noticed the following both positive and negative:
- Dividing up the points between group members was difficult and a bit confusing at first
- Some groups chose to use math to figure out how to divide up the points
- Students conversed heavily and had some difficulty in being open to say that
- Explaining what to actually do was tough as students need more time to work on understanding how to give specific ways to improve
No comments:
Post a Comment