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Biology Teamwork Assessment: Peers Evaluate Each Other!

Peer Collaboration Evaluation Tool

Using our “Peer Collaboration Evaluation Tool,”  you will be able to help students be more consciences of how well they work with other team members.

As part of a State wide STEM competition I had to take my student to a variety of local businesses, government agencies, hospitals and organizations to help gather some insight about the needs for the community.

As a result of that experience there was a common response  I receive to the question: What skills do you need our students to have when coming to you out of high school or college?

For every person I posed the question, all of their responses were:

“THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO WORK WELL WITH THE TEAM”

Reflect on your grade book right know.

How are you assessing your student’s ability to work as team?

Do your students know they are not easy to work with?

Are they able to do almost no work and still get the same grade as the whole group because they are good at pretending to be involved?

Student can no longer sit back and let everyone else work for them!

Using this google form tool your student can now evaluate each other!

Here is a quick video that shows you what the tool can do!

 

The Google Form That Your Students Will See (Below)

 

The best part of this that the tool will keep track of all of the responses for as long as you want. You can even use it across disciplines.

The tool takes your students’ scores from their peers and automatically gives you the average of all of their scores as a percentage, average of  all of their total scores and the average of all of their individual scores.

All you need to do as a teacher, is set up a place for students to fill out the Peer Collaboration Evaluation Form using a computer, Ipad or other device with internet access.

How to Implement the Peer Collaboration Evaluation Tool  in the Classroom

This tool can be used with any type of partner, lab or  collaborative group work.

To use google forms you must first have a google account (gmail is a google account). Create one here if you do not have one yet.

You get free storage and a whole host of other excellent tools like forms and it is completely free.

Once you have an account and get logged in, click on the waffle (circled in red) on the top right of your screen.

Next, click on “Drive”. This takes you to your Google Drive . This is where your storage space is located and where your tool will be located after your receive it in your email and click “make a copy” (see below)

After clicking on make a copy, you will land on the screen pictured below.

This screen (above) is the raw calculations spreadsheet. This is were your data will populate as your students begin to rank each other.

To go to the live form, click on  “go to live form” under the “Form” menu. This will take you to the live form that can be shared with your students.

The best part of the forms is that it collects the data from all of your  students and puts it into a single spreadsheet that can then be sorted and easily added into your grade book.

Check out the video on how the use this tool!

 

 

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