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Sample Forms for Team Selection and Evaluation
Issues
[Summary of information received by Amit Poddar from a request posted on ELMAR]
Instructor #1
I have attached (see immediately below, after the horizontal rule) a description of Team
Member Expectations, Ideal Team Member Criteria, and a Peer Evaluation for Group
Projects that I use for Principles of Marketing. I hand out this document when I assign the
team projects and the students are dividing into teams. I have found it is helpful to fully
explain my expectations before the group work begins.
I still have an occasional team that has an under performing student. If the team
approaches me early, I can help them correct the problem. If the team does not contact
me or they wait until the night before a project is due, there is little I can do to help.
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Team Member Expectations
Why does this Marketing course incorporate team assignments?
“Many companies are putting employees into self-directed work teams as an important
mechanism for dealing with today’s complex and rapidly changing environment. As a
result, businesses recommended that curriculum and teaching methods be designed to
develop students’ communication and interpersonal skills through the use of student
groups in the learning process.”(1) Students are finding that employers are asking
prospective candidates to describe their experiences working in teams during the
interview process. (3)
How will I be evaluated on my participation on the team assignments?
At the end of the semester, each student will complete a Peer Evaluation for Group
Projects. This assessment instrument will give the instructor feedback on how individuals
contributed to the two group projects this semester. (Emerging Industry Presentation and
the Final Marketing Plan Paper and Presentation)
Peer evaluations are designed to accomplish the following:
Instill individual accountability for the team assignments
Evaluate each person’s level of participation in the team projects
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Ideal Team Member Criteria
Important items that contribute to being an ideal team member:
1. Able to use the library resources to collect information
2. Attends all team meetings
3. Comfortable using PowerPoint
4. Communicates well with other team members
5. Respectful of other team members
References
1. Siciliano, Julie. “A Template for Managing Teamwork in Courses Across the
Curriculum.” Journal of Education for Business, May/June 1999.
2. Vik, Gretchen N. “Doing more to teach teamwork than telling students to sink or
Team Member Evaluations
Team Number _______________________
Peer Evaluation for Group Projects
INSTRUCTIONS:
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Peer Evaluation for Group Projects
Person completing this form: ______________________________
Contribution/Participation
Name Poor Below
Average
Average Above
Average
Excellent
Instructor #2
I use the attached (below) form. Furthermore, in the first class itself I announce very
clearly that free riders might lose 5-10% or might even fail if they don’t work. I kind of
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GROUP MEMBER EVALUATION FORM
For each member in your group, determine how much you feel he or she contributed to
YOUR NAME:
PROJECT TOPIC:
Next, there is a table with the following columns:
Instructor #3
PEER EVALUATION FORM
This peer evaluation is designed to correct possible inequities in grading your group
project. You are asked to rate your team members according to each person’s contribution
to the team effort. The ratings should reflect a team member’s time, effort, ability, and
willingness to work things out with the other members. It should not reflect the grade you
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2. In the right column below, please rate each of the members of your group, including
yourself, by giving him/her a letter grade from A to F (A+ is not allowed).
Evaluations should be turned in individually and confidentially on the day the project is
Title of Project (not course
name):________________________________________________________________
NAMES GRADE
1. (Your name :) (Grade yourself :)
Instructor #4
Peer Evaluation – If a team member does not complete the assigned duties or does not do
a fair share, he or she will suffer the consequences, not the other team members!! The
procedure is as follows:
1. I will grade your advertising campaign team project. Grades will be numerical
based on the above criteria and weights.
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5. A percentage of 0 must be given to team members who do not participate, for any
reason whatsoever, in production of a particular team project. This is the only
You may wish to use the following criteria in your peer evaluations:
1. Number of meetings attended and prompt attendance at meetings
2. Amount of work contributed
Example:
Team project grade = 90
Individual Team Individual
Team Member Contribution % Grade Grade
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Columns 1 and 2 will be filled out by each team member for his or her peers and will be
handed in the last day of class. The instructor will grade the project and return the form,
averaging the individual contributions in column 2 and filling in Columns 3 and 4.
Instructor #5
*****Team Member Evaluations***** Each team member will be evaluated on their
contribution to each team assignment by all other team members. Team members will use
the following 3-point scale to evaluate each member:
3-Good Team Member-Contributed roughly the same amount of work as the other
Your team assignment grade will be deducted from the initial team assignment grade as
followings:
If all team members give you evaluations of 2 or lower (except all 1s), your grade
for that assignment will be 75% of the initial team grade. For example, if your
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Instructor #6
PROJECT EVALUATION
EVALUATION OF YOUR OWN GROUP
Since this was a group project, you will now have the opportunity to evaluate the
contributions made by each of the members of your group.
Your own contributions:
Contributions of your group members
You now have the opportunity to evaluate the contributions of each member of the group.
Please list the names of all group members (including yourself) in the space below. Next,
Name Points
______________________________________________ ____________
______________________________________________ ____________
______________________________________________ ____________
______________________________________________ ____________
______________________________________________ ____________
______________________________________________ ____________
_______________________________________________ ____________
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Instructor #7
Groups are required to prepare and sign a group contract that covers everything from
designating a project manager, indicating a target grade (and resolving their differing
goals), schedule of work, and grounds for firing. I ask them to be very explicit about the
latter so that it makes it easier on them later to actually fire a member. Most firings that
Three weeks before their presentation date, they must turn in a reference list of what
they’ve found so far. This can be pretty rough but I’m looking at both the quality/type of
references they’re seeking (so I can steer them in another direction if necessary) and the
sharing of workload. The reference list must have the indication of who contributed each
individual reference. Where there’s an imbalance, I point it out to the group and suggest
that they resolve this imbalance or let me know if they cannot.
Once all group work is done, they are asked to individually submit peer evaluations on a
series of 10-point questions, the total of which sums to 100. I keep to myself the specific
target scores that can affect their grade, but essentially, if they average a peer score of 80
or less, they get only 80% of the project grade. I’ve had a few really bad examples (peer
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Instructor #8
I have used group projects throughout my teaching career having taught team projects at
four different universities, every semester and in every class, I have taught except
statistics and principles of marketing. The following are my observations:
The downside of smaller teams is that it requires more effort on your part as the
instructor. There are more projects to grade, sometimes more clients to recruit, and
certainly more effort required to manage the different strengths and weakness that occur
across teams. However, since I have primarily taught at “teaching” not research schools,
where the mission of the University is based on increased interactions between faculty
Fortunately, at GCSU, unless you make the error yourself to provide student overrides
you will not have more than 50 students in a class. Though three is the ideal, I often allow
teams to form with four students. Partly because of attrition and firings. It is typical that
at least one team per class will lose a team member during the semester due the student
withdrawing from the course or, because their teammates fired them. Thus, a team of
three can quickly become a team of 2 or even on a couple of occasions a team of one.
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The second issue that I have found plays significantly in regards to freeloading is team
member selections. I use part of the first four class periods for team building/ice breaker
activities that explore the strengths and weakness, skills and abilities, and personalities of
The third thing I do to help control freeloading is to get feedback four times during the
course of the project. I have developed a ten-item list that students rate each other and
themselves and then must explain the ratings. These peer evaluations usually start out that
everyone is doing perfect across all ten items, but by the third and fourth, the truth starts
to be revealed. I stress at each collection time that it is not sufficient to simply tell me that
The final thing I would add to this is that, unfortunately there will always be some
individuals who attempt to freeload. If we make a serious effort to limit the ability to
freeload and a student still freeloads, let it be. Why should the classroom be any different
from the real world? Look around in your own work environment there are plenty of
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For what they are worth, these are my thought and observations.
Instructor #9
Group Member Evaluation
MKXXX Consumer Behavior
Group #: _____ Exercise: __________________________________ Date: ______
Congratulations! For your fine performance this period, your group has been awarded an
Your Name ______________________________
Other Group Members Performance Bonus
______________________________ $_________
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Comments: ____________________________________________________________
______________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
I include member evaluations as part of the group final project. I tell them that I will, and
then I collect an evaluation in which each individual member allocates 100 points among
all of the group members. In the case when basically everybody in the group says that