Peer assessment sheet for the debate PDF

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Peer assessment sheet for the debate which is a group assignment and this is for each member to mark for another group....

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Scientific Literacy 700124 Debate - Peer Assessment Sheet Note: a completed assessment form must be received from you before any mark can be awarded for the presentation. If you don’t complete and return yours, you will not only get no marks for the assignment, but you will have lost the opportunity to have you say in the group learning process. This is a confidential process - your team members will not get to see your rating sheet. Assessment of others is an important skill. You should take time to answer these questions, forcing yourself to be objective and unbiased. The individual responses will be kept confidential. Remember, this is you assessing the performance of your peers it is your opinion that has to count. For each member of your group, apart from yourself, award a mark out of 5 for your group-mate’s level of performance and participation as you saw it in each of the following tasks: (a) Organiser of group meetings/rehearsals (b) Participation in the group meetings/rehearsals (c) Researcher and contributor of material (d) Performance in the debate itself (e) Overall enthusiasm and usefulness as a team member Use the following grading scale and enter your responses in the table. Do not rate yourself - just rate your team-mates. 1 - didn’t contribute in any way to this part 2 - willing, but not much use 3 - average compared to other group members 4 - above average, a useful person to have in my group 5 - outstanding in this part of the project First Activity Performance Group member 1 2 3

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Your Name:............................................................. Hand this sheet in at the end of your debate session. You must have completed and submitted one of these peer assessment forms to your tutor by the end of week 12 (preferably by the end of the debate session). THIS IS NON-NEGOTIABLE. No peer assessment = no debate marks!

How does the peer assessment work? This method that has been developed to allow participants within a group to rate the performance of their fellow team-mates in the group. It is foolproof to the extent that it cannot be used to gain everyone in the group top marks simply by rating yourselves all highly – doing this will simply make you all ‘average’. If you feel that you have done most of the work, then you owe it to yourself to make sure that this is reflected in the assessment. What happens is that you will be given a ‘personal mark’ for the presentation or assignment. (a) The ‘average effort’ for the group is then calculated from all the marks that are handed in on your assessment sheets. (b) Your individual effort is calculated from all the scores for your effort given by all the other members in your group. (c) You are then given a weighting factor calculated by c divided by b. Your personal mark is then multiplied by your weighting factor to obtain your individual score for the assignment. Eg;

a = 70 and average effort of everyone in the group = 3.7 out of five

If your effort = 4.5 out of five your weighting factor = 4.5/3.7 = 1.22 Your mark = 70 x 1.22 = 85.4 If your effort = 2.5 out of five your weighting factor = 2.5/3.7 = 0.676 Your mark = 70 x 0.676 = 47.32 This illustrates how, for the same group assignment, those that did the work and those that didn’t can be separated out. Remember, if you all mark each other 3 or 4 or 5 out of 5 for everything, then you will all have a weighting ratio of 1 and you will all share the group score. If this is OK by you, then so be it. If not, use this peer assessment sheet to change the marks. Sheets can be sealed in an envelope without a name on the outside for confidentiality, but failure to hand in your peer assessment sheet will mean no marks for this part of the assessment.

Suzanne Ermert...