Peer assessment using a digital tool
Peer assessments are a valuable tool to use with student groupwork to encourage students to reflect on and critically evaluate not just their own learning and skill development, but those of their team members as well in preparation for their professional careers.
4. Group questions
Assessing the group dynamics at play within your groups is essential to ensure the groups are operating cohesively and productively. Peer assessment tools usually have default team questions that you can choose from, or you can import questions from a previous evaluation you have run. In both instances, you can adapt questions to suit your current circumstance, or you can develop your own questions to use. Questions for group questions may be Scale, Points division, or Open-ended questions.
Ideas to develop your group questions
You could consider these criteria from CATME to develop questions to include in your group assessment:
- follow-Up questions
- team satisfaction
- team interdependence
- team conflict
- team cohesiveness
- peer influences
- psychological safety.
Some of these criteria have a number of sub-sections and each have questions suitable for either Scale or Points division Team questions, for example, Process conflict is a subsection of Team conflict and offers the questions:
- how often are there disagreements about who should do what in your work group?
- how much conflict is there in your group about task responsibilities?
- how often do you disagree about resource allocation in your work group?
For more inspiration to get you started on Team evaluation, access the Question Library at Peer assessment.com for ideas to develop both Peer and Team questions.