Feedback Fruits - Group Member Evaluation

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What is the Feedback Fruits Group Member Evaluation tool?

The Group Member Evaluation tool enables instructors to create assignments for students to provide feedback on how their peers have participated in their group. The tool integrates with groups set in MyUni. This replaces SPLAT (Self and Peer Learning Assessment Tool).

Why use this tool?

The Group Member Evaluation tool can be used:

To enhance the experience of working in a group;
To provide a mechanism for students to provide feedback on each group member’s contribution according to a set of objective criteria;
To provide students with a mechanism to report when a group member had not contributed to a group task;
To provide students with a mechanism to report when a group member had positively contributed to a group task;
To provide students with greater confidence and accountability when working on a group task; and
To provide an instructor with greater insight into group dynamics during a group task.
To allow students to see feedback from their peers with anonymous or non-anonymous options.

What are the main options and features?

An overview of the tool can be viewed on the FeedbackFruits dedicated webpage

In summary, the main options and features are:

Teachers can change the type of group member evaluation activity to "review the activity within groups" or "review by groups giving feedback to other groups".
The tool allows teachers to structure and customise the peer assessment criteria with options such as qualitative feedback criteria, scales, or rubrics.
The tool enables students to critically review their own contributions before assessing others'.
Teachers have the possibility to convert any activity into a summative task, configure which steps of the assignment should be graded and how many elements should count to determine the final grade.
Teachers can set deadlines on when to release feedback that has been provided to students. The tool doesn't show the feedback student get from their peers until the deadlines are over to avoid bias.
Teachers can either design open peer assessments, encouraging comparison and discussion among students or anonymously, depending on the assessment task and context.

Walkthroughs and Tutorials

Use this Group Member Evaluation alternative to SPLAT Quicksheet if you need to use Feedback Fruits in a similar way to SPLAT.

What is the Group Skill Factor?

The Group Skill Factor uses the ratings received compared to the maximum points possible for the criteria to come up with a factor between 0 and 1. A student’s factor does not change depending on scores the other students receive. The teacher is able to configure the values that decide what will happen to student project grades when they receive their average scores.

One of three things will happen to the student’s project grade in this case:
It will stay the same (nothing gets deducted or added), the project grade gets multiplied by the factor the student receives, or the project grade for this student will be reduced to zero (0).

The defaults for this group contribution option are set to:

Give students a zero (0) if they score between 0 and 0.55
The project grade multiplied by the average score if they score between 0.56 and 0.8
An unaltered project grade if they score anywhere between 0.81 and 1

The teacher may again edit these values to what is desired for the assignment.

Group Skill Factor

Another factor called the group contribution factor calculates student participation by distributing a factor between 0 and 2 which shows how much the students have done within the group work relative to the other team members.

How to Moderate an Individual Grade?

You can add your review comments and ratings as a teacher to an individual student. This will alter their final review ratings. For steps on how to do this see the following guide: Feedback Fruits - Group Memeber Moderation.docx

NB. This guide can also be used for Peer Review assignments.