Peer Ratings in Cooperative Learning Teams
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A universal concern about cooperative learning is the possible existence of “hitchhikers,” team members who fail to fulfill their team responsibilities but get the same high grade as their more responsible teammates. A common way to minimize hitchhiking is to use peer ratings to assess individual performance of team members and to adjust the team project grade for individual team members based on their average ratings. Peer ratings have potential drawbacks, however. Common concerns are that team members will agree to give one another identically high ratings, or give ratings based on gender or racial prejudice, or inflate their own ratings if selfratings are collected. Some instructors also worry that many students will resent having their grades affected by their teammates’ ratings. The objective of this study was to examine the validity of these concerns.
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