Starting fresh this week
This form replaces the one you used in week 5, and two things are different. You now pick a category instead of a number out of ten. And for anything below met expectations, the conversation with that person happens before you finish submitting this form, not afterwards.
The five answers
Met expectations
Completed their agreed-upon share of the work. This is the expected level of contribution and earns full credit.
No conversation needed
Exceeded expectations
Did their share and contributed beyond what was expected, such as taking initiative, helping others, or moving the team past a challenge.
Conversation encouraged - tell them yourself
Partially met expectations
Completed some of their agreed-upon work, but teammates had to cover the remaining work or it remained unfinished.
Conversation required before you can submit
Did not meet expectations
Completed little of their agreed-upon work, or submitted it too late for the team to use.
Conversation required before you can submit
Did not contribute
Did not contribute to the team's work this week.
Conversation required before you can submit
Meeting expectations is the whole grade
Doing your agreed share earns full credit. Exceeded is not worth more marks - it is there so good work gets named, and your instructor keeps a count of it.
This is not tattling
Nobody is reporting anybody. This is a week-by-week record of how the work was shared, so that participation is tracked as it happens rather than reconstructed from memory in December.
Your team still governs itself. The team charter you wrote is the agreement you hold each other to, and you can amend it whenever the team decides to - if the way you are working has changed, change the charter to match.
And no single week decides anything: the participation grade is finalized at the end of the semester. What you are looking at here is a running total.
Your team still governs itself. The team charter you wrote is the agreement you hold each other to, and you can amend it whenever the team decides to - if the way you are working has changed, change the charter to match.
And no single week decides anything: the participation grade is finalized at the end of the semester. What you are looking at here is a running total.
When it is open
Each week's evaluation opens on the Tuesday after that week - so you are looking back at a week that has finished - and closes at noon on Wednesday, the day before the next class, unless your instructor extends a particular week - the banner on the form always shows the real cut-off. Outside those hours the form is closed. If something genuinely stops you, tell your instructor; she can reopen a week.