Assessing lab assignments
Before beginning your assessment, please review the group contract that you signed before beginning your collaborative work.
Your assessment should keep in mind that the most effective collaboration draws on the experience, perspective and skills of everyone in your team. This includes: getting and keeping the team organized, coming up with ideas, doing background research, trying out ideas that may or may not work, producing a first draft of required submissions, giving and receiving feedback, refining initial work, considering and incorporating ideas that others come up with, editing, taking responsibility for the quality of the final product, motivating others, supporting others, encouraging all team members and including their contributions, and bringing positive energy to the work. You may be able to articulate additional qualities that you have found important and helpful.
Be honest, respectful and constructive in the peer evaluations you provide. Constructive criticism aims to aid in the improvement, development, and advancement of the receiver. Only constructive criticism will be (anonymously) shared with your peers. If you identify any concerns that you cannot express as constructive criticism, please bring those concerns directly to me.
I will summarize aggregate results before sharing anonymized responses with you.
Instructions for how to submit assessment
- Copy and paste the text below the horizontal line into a text file. Complete the form by typing in your responses to each question for yourelf and for each member of your team.
- Save the file as a plain-text file named
{LASTNAME}-assessment1.txt, replacing{LASTNAME}with your last name. - Add the correctly named file to your personal folder on the course Google drive.
BIO190/CLAS190 lab 1: assessment of collaboration
Your name:
- Describe one or more aspects of collaboration in which you feel you were particularly successful. Note any areas in which you believe you improved.
- How can you improve at collaboration in the future?
- Provide an overall self-rating of your contribution to your team during these assignments from 1-5 where 1 means “Needs improvement”, 3 means “Satisfactory” and 5 means “Excellent”.
Teammate 1’s name:
- Describe one or more aspects of collaboration in which you feel your teammate was particularly successful. Note any areas in which you believe your teammate improved.
- How can your teammate improve at collaboration in the future?
- Provide an overall self-rating of your teammate’s contribution to your team during these assignments from 1-5 where 1 means “Needs improvement”, 3 means “Satisfactory” and 5 means “Excellent”.
Teammate 2’s name:
- Describe one or more aspects of collaboration in which you feel your teammate was particularly successful. Note any areas in which you believe your teammate improved.
- How can your teammate improve at collaboration in the future?
- Provide an overall self-rating of your teammate’s contribution to your team during these assignments from 1-5 where 1 means “Needs improvement”, 3 means “Satisfactory” and 5 means “Excellent”.
Teammate 3’s name:
- Describe one or more aspects of collaboration in which you feel your teammate was particularly successful. Note any areas in which you believe your teammate improved.
- How can your teammate improve at collaboration in the future?
- Provide an overall self-rating of your teammate’s contribution to your team during these assignments from 1-5 where 1 means “Needs improvement”, 3 means “Satisfactory” and 5 means “Excellent”.