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naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

My students have been working on a final project and I'm going to have them give me feedback on their group. In other words, they are going to give grades to the other people in the group.
Any ideas on what they could grade each other on? It's Monday and about 35 degrees, I think that my brain is fried and I can't think.
Anyways, I've come up with the following.

Contribution to the group
Punctuality
Positive Attitude
Responsibility

Anything else that I could add?
Thanks

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Without knowing what you were working on...

How about...

"what do you think the value of this project was?"

"would you have preferred to work alone on this project? Why?"

It's cool here...10 C. My brain is fried anyway...

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Thanks, they got to pick their own projects in groups of about 3-5 people. But I chose the people they worked with.
So their project vary on how to make a milk shake to pollution in southern Peru to short stories that they wrote.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Maybe ask what they thought of their partners' contributions...or maybe that would be too flammable.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Time spent on task--could be included in the contributions to the group section.

I did something similar and asked the students to comment on their groupmates' use of English. Basically, when they met outside class, did they speak English or Japanese?

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Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

I for one am still puzzling over what you were teaching your students, naturegirl321!
I teach English, and Iask my students to assess each other's performance during presentations!

merlin · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:01 am Post subject:

Something about interest.
Did they display interest in the work?

This could also be tied in with usability.
Have they done something that's actually usable or did they just go through the motions.

Students who are interested in a topic and who feel they can use it practically tend to learn more than those who dont. Put the burden on them to be interested and find practical applications for their learning.

When I give tests I give 20% of the points based on a questionnaire such as this. They are "fee points" so long as the student actually fills them out in what I believe is an honest reflection.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Roger,
just trying to make a fun project where they use English in a topic they enjoy. After all it is summer and the classes are 2.5 hours a day. yuck and no AC. But they seem to enjoy it, some projects are rewriting Shakespeare, talking about typicla peruvian dishes, murphy-s law, writing a short story, a poem. they chose the topics, I just want them to work together, use english and enjoy themselves. It replaces two speeches.