Peer Evaluation in an Active Learning Group Project

1. 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 Brumley•Brandon Fryday•Matthew Lee University of Louisiana at Monroe School of Construction Management

2. Construction Phases

3. Topping Out Fall 2006 Fall 2006

4. Project Enhancements Fall 2006 • More realistic • More manageable • Peer grading

5. PROJECT ORGANIZATION

6. 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?

7. 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.”

8. A Rubric

9. Instructor Assigns Group Grade By Rubric Peer Assessment in Groups By Rubric; Collected by Spreadsheet Process Group Evaluations Tabulated; Individual Grades Assigned

10. Algorithm The average of individual grades in a group equals the group grade Individual Evaluation Ratio (IER) (Feigenbaum & Holland, 1997) (Berryman, 1999)

11. Thanks For Your Time