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Equal Marks Assessment Model
The team is given an overall grade for the project. Each team member receives the same mark despite individual contributions
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*Redistribution Model
A team grade is awarded to all members but is adjusted for individual contributions. For example, 90% of a student’s grade is the overall team grade, 10% is an individual grade as formulated through peer evaluations, for example. There is no perfect breakdown of the grade, but make sure it reflects your goals for student learning and motivates the kind of work you want to see.
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*Individual + Team Assessment Model
A team grade is given for components of the project. Students submit individual components as well (e.g., a short essay, journal entries, individual quiz) and receive grades for their individual contribution as well.
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Individual Performance Model
Each team member writes and submits an individual report based on the team’s work.
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No matter how you assess team work, whether it is the final project, their group process, or both, make clear to the students how they will be assessed and opportunities for appeals/challenges. There are four models for how to evaluate group projects (see right).
The Redistribution Model and Individual+Team Assessment Model are most effective at reducing conflict and encouraging team participation as well as accommodating learning processes.
If teamwork skills are one of your learning objectives for the course or the assignment, it’s important to assess students’ progress toward that goal. This can be difficult for instructors to directly assess, so you may do this by having team evaluations (each member evaluates the dynamics of the team as a whole), peer evaluations (each team member evaluates the contributions of their teammates), and self-evaluations (each team member documents their own contributions). This assessment may be quantitative or qualitative, as a reflective writing assignment, or as a questionnaire.
