Weighting: 20% |

Deadline: 13 May 2022
Marking Guidelines
Individual Submission
Submission Details

The Individual Submission is part of each student's Project Portfolio. However, different from the Portfolio Team Submission, this part needs to be completed individually by each student registered for COMP208.

We expect one submission per student. Such submission should comprise

A personal statement (max 1 page) of what the student has learnt during the project. Here students should reflect on their experience and say what they think they have learned, both in terms of technical & software-engineering skills and in terms of team-working & inter-personal skills. The statement should be written in simple personal terms, and not simply repeating material from the lectures or from textbooks.
This document will show what was learnt from the experience of working to complete a team project; learning is possible even when events have not gone according to plan, perhaps even more so than when all goes well.
A peer group assessment. Using a predefined form WHICH WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE SOON, each student should evaluate her/his own contribution and that of the members of the team to the project.
Typically the feedback from all team members will provide a truthful reflection of the group dynamics, strengths and weaknesses.

The purpose of these documents is to offer all students the possibility to provide individual feedback on the whole group project experience. Furthermore students are able to comment of the performance of all members of their teams (including their own). In this way they help us differentiating between the performances of different team members.

A Word On the Marking Scheme. The individual submission (which accounts for 20% of the total mark) is used to (further) differentiate the marks of different group members depending on their performance. The personal statement will be marked in terms of the quality of its content (use of the English language, quality of the argument presented). Through the peer group assessment form each person assigns a score to all other people in his/her team over four different issues: attendance to meetings, contribution, carried out work, worked fairly. We will add up the scores obtained by each team member and compare that with the team average score and the resulting discrepancies are used to refine each student mark. So, for instance, if we have

Smith, John 21 18 23 20 21

This means that Smith belongs to a group of five people and these people gave him scores of 21, 18, 23 ... respectively. Assuming that the average mark in that group is 23 we then discover that Mr. Smith has slightly under-performed (his average score is 20.6). This implies that Mr. Smith final mark for the group project will be his average team mark reduced by a few percent points depending on the difference 23 - 20.6.

The mechanism penalizes significantly people that do not engage in the teams activities.

But the marking also encourages self-analysis. A team whose members do NOT submit any peer assessment form will lose 20% of their portfolio's mark. Furthermore teams in which the variance between the various arrays of numberical scores is very close to zero (for instance if everybody gives the same top scores to everybody else) will receive a smaller reward than teams where a more constructive self assessment process is evident.

Supporting Material

Here's an example of completed peer group assessment form: Peer Assessment Form (Completed).pdf