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Record W2598237572 · doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.6537

Group and individual evaluation in engineering project courses

2017· article· en· W2598237572 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Calin Stoicoiu

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicStudent Assessment and Feedback
Canadian institutionsConestoga College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPraiseGroup workGroup (periodic table)Diversity (politics)Task (project management)PsychologyMathematics educationWork (physics)Computer sciencePoint (geometry)Social psychologyEngineeringSociologyMathematics

Abstract

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In engineering programs of study, students often work in small to medium size groups. In particular, programs designed on the project –based learning principle rely heavier on structured group work for projects and integrated courses. There are incontestable benefits surfacing from group work, particularly seen as the increase of critical thinking and problem solving skills and development of social interaction abilities.Challenges occur more often than expected with the assessment and evaluation of the individual performance and participation of each group member in contrast with the whole group results. The final result can be outstanding but it might realistically belong to only one or two group members. The result of the individual assessment must not only reflect accurately and fairly one’s effort but also fit properly in the whole group diversity landscape. Alternatively, group members may have valuable but rather inconspicuous contributions that might easily be undetected and go unrecognized.How to identify sooner rather than later the non-participating students within the group and correct the situation? Which is the best method of fair detection and praise for considerable contribution? The extraction of peer evaluation data and its incorporation in the overall group assessment, represents another often difficult or misinterpreted task. These are questions and challenges yet to be properly addressed. This paper provides a synopsis of existing evaluation techniques for engineering students working in groups, both from a psychological and academic point of view, including examples of current practices from existing project –based learning programs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.961

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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