“Measuring” Team Work in Captsone Projects

Using Rubrics Developed by Minha Ha

Context

• Chem Eng 4W04: Three projects, different areas, groups of 4-5 students.

• Report writing, group presentation and peer evaluation.

• How to “measure” team work for accreditation purposes. Need rubrics for indicators/attributes

Attributes/Indicators

Use Minha Ha's Teamwork Assessment Strategy as Rubrics

Rubric Developed by Minha (old version)

Rubric Developed by Minha (contd.)

How Measurement Was Done

• The quality of team work is reflected in three fronts:– Quality of the Final Report (but what %)– Observations by the professor– The opinions of the students in the groups.

• Created a googledocs survey where the rubric was given to students. They had to pick which level to be closest to their experience

Example of Survey

• Screen Capture from Google Docs

Results

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Fails to Meet Expectations

Marginally Meets Expectations

Meets Expectations

Exceeds Expectations

Main Results

• Lots of Room for Improvement• Time management is most common problem• Accountability is widely achieved • A high number of people are in the

“marginally achieve” expectation category

Most Recent Rubrics for Team Work (V3)

Most Recent Rubrics for Team Work (V3-contd.)

Most Recent Rubrics for Team Work (V3-contd.)