Re: [Phys-L] labs/projects

[brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

On 8/30/2018 9:55 AM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
> A science teacher here wants to try PBL (project based learning) and is
> looking for a good peer evaluation form. Does anyone have something they'd
> like to share?
Well, look at you! Signed in with five pointers to a day school.

Anyway, here's one aspect. If you want to encourage team-work then it is 
well to evaluate by team results!

But that can be a problem in this land of sturdy individualists, who may 
well be aware that a team can be more (or less) than the sum of its 
parts, but find it difficult to rate synergy on an individual basis. 
There again, I am old and cynical.

Another problem: team-work has a gender bias, apparently - in that girls 
and women can work better in a team environment than men and boys. It's 
that co-operative, nurturing thing, as opposed to that aggressive, 
competitive thing....so cynical!


Brian W