Assessing team work in engineering projects

• Autores: Deepti Mishra, Sofiya Ostrovska, Tuna Hacaloglu
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 31, no. Extra 2, 2015, págs. 627-634
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Team work is considered a valuable teaching technique in higher education. However, the assessment of an individual’swork in teams has proved to be a challenging task. Consequently, self- and peer-evaluations are becoming increasinglypopular for the assessment of individuals in a team work, though it is essential to determine whether students can judgetheir ownas well as their peer’s performance effectively. Self- and peer-evaluations have been applied in different disciplinesand their authenticity with regard to teacher’s assessment has been evaluated in the literature but this issue has not beeninvestigated in the field of engineering education so far. In this study, a peer- and self-assessment procedure is applied to theevaluation of a project work conducted in teams of 3 or 4 students. The participants were engineering students taking twosimilar courses related with database design and development. It is found that a majority of the students were unable toassess themselves as objectively as their instructor. Further, it is observed that successful students tend to under-estimate,whereas unsuccessful students tend to over-estimate, their own performance. The paper also establishes that the results ofself-assessments are independent from the gender factor.