The School and Uni Vent and Discussion Thread.

[GoLions]

Wait, maybe not Friday, depending on whether I have to go to the physio on a weekly basis or not

[LaHug]

Looks like swotvac it is! Screw early in the morning... I was thinking more like 10:30/11ish for morning tea.

[GoLions]

Looks like swotvac it is! Screw early in the morning... I was thinking more like 10:30/11ish for morning tea.

But that's early in the morning... :'(

[LaHug]

Looks like swotvac it is! Screw early in the morning... I was thinking more like 10:30/11ish for morning tea.

But that's early in the morning... :'(

Haha. Afternoon it is!

[Nige]

Any other Claytonians?

How do you feel about non-Claytonians coming?  :'(

If you can get there, sure.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Give me a time and date, and I'll be there.  ;)

[elephants]

So I just got a one-week extension on my presentation because one of my group members is pregnant.

Did I ever mention how much I love group work?

[Justin Bieber]

Looks like swotvac it is! Screw early in the morning... I was thinking more like 10:30/11ish for morning tea.

But that's early in the morning... :'(

Haha. Afternoon it is!

I love sleeping in til like 10am-2pm, so afternoon would suit me great :D.

That is some luck El :P.

[LaHug]

So I just got a one-week extension on my presentation because one of my group members is pregnant.

Did I ever mention how much I love group work?

Haven't had that one before :o

[Mat0369]

This is why I like group work where each person is graded individually, so whoever doesn't put in the effort, they screw themselves rather than others (if you don't get a say in your group).

Peer rating system for the win. Every class we would have group assignments we also had a peer rating system where you would rate each member of the group. The peer assessment would count to your overall mark and could count for as much as 10% of the assignment. If there was negative feedback they would lose marks off the original submission which was good when working with deadbeats. So say you got a 65% because someone was not turning up, not submitting stuff etc, you would basically give them a negative rating and if yours was positive you would gain marks. So the 65 for the positively rated group members would bump up to a 70%, for the guys with negative marks it would drop down to below 60%. I think there were 3 people I only ever gave the negative marks too and that is because they just either never turned up or didn't do any work.

There was one guy that we went 7 weeks before we realised he was in our group. He turned up week 1, we were assigned groups, never turned up to any classes after the first, we handed in the assignment in week 7 and were asked to resubmit by our lecturer since we forgot his name. We all figured he had dropped out, turns out he didn't but just never showed up for classes.

Another chick had a pretty critical responsibility in organizing one of our projects. It was her idea and all the contacts were hers so we asked her to do 3 or 4 things which involved interview questions and times to meet the contacts. We did the rest, got into the car to go meet the people on the day and she had done nothing, we did the work she was supposed to on the wa there and said we would do it again the week after and this can be a test run. The following week she bailed, we had to come up with something last minute and it basically f'ed the rest of us up.

The third guy we had a pretty critical meeting, it was the last chance we had to run through everything on an assignment that was worth something like 50%, the previous 3 weeks he had bailed on the meetings but that week he told us he would be there. He no shows again and we decide on relegating his role. Our lecturer was in on these meetings so pretty much knew what was going on, she baked him on the phone at the end of the class that day and said he would be in next week to do it. The following week he actually turned up and he went into it with no prep, I am pretty sure he came close to failing.

[LaHug]

We have a similar system to the above. The maximum you can get bumped up to is 110% of your mark (so a 70 becomes a 77, etc.) and the minimum you can get is 0. I've given one person a 0 before. More often than not, my score is between 1.03 and 1.1...

[Toga]

So I just got a one-week extension on my presentation because one of my group members is pregnant.

Did I ever mention how much I love group work?

The things that phants will do for an extension... :P

[elephants]

So I just got a one-week extension on my presentation because one of my group members is pregnant.

Did I ever mention how much I love group work?

The things that phants will do for an extension... :P

Haha! Mate looking at her, I would absolutely 100% take the bullet for the team 8)

[Big Mac]

So I just got a one-week extension on my presentation because one of my group members is pregnant.

Did I ever mention how much I love group work?

The things that phants will do for an extension... :P

Haha! Mate looking at her, I would absolutely 100% take the bullet for the team 8)

Good to know there are still people like you out there who are willing to do what's best for society  ;)

[Ziplock]

We have a similar system to the above. The maximum you can get bumped up to is 110% of your mark (so a 70 becomes a 77, etc.) and the minimum you can get is 0. I've given one person a 0 before. More often than not, my score is between 1.03 and 1.1...

I haven't had one of these myself yet, but at engineering in usyd it's pretty similar. Basically, you get allocated groups based on your rankings from previous years, so you get like 1 good person, 2 average people and one idiot in your group. You do the assignment, and your marks get pooled (so, if your team of 4 got 80, then you get a pooled mark of 80*4= 320). When you hand in the assignment, you also hand in the peer review though (which I don't know exactly how it works, like a mark out of 10 or something).

Then your final mark is dependent on how your team gets ranked. For isntance, if one guy never shows up and you all give him 0, he'll basically get 0 for the assessment, which means the pooled marks of 320 marks are divided by 3 and you all get like full marks :P

or, at least that's how I understand the system to work anyway. :P

[jobe#4]

This is why I like group work where each person is graded individually, so whoever doesn't put in the effort, they screw themselves rather than others (if you don't get a say in your group).

Peer rating system for the win. Every class we would have group assignments we also had a peer rating system where you would rate each member of the group. The peer assessment would count to your overall mark and could count for as much as 10% of the assignment. If there was negative feedback they would lose marks off the original submission which was good when working with deadbeats. So say you got a 65% because someone was not turning up, not submitting stuff etc, you would basically give them a negative rating and if yours was positive you would gain marks. So the 65 for the positively rated group members would bump up to a 70%, for the guys with negative marks it would drop down to below 60%. I think there were 3 people I only ever gave the negative marks too and that is because they just either never turned up or didn't do any work.

There was one guy that we went 7 weeks before we realised he was in our group. He turned up week 1, we were assigned groups, never turned up to any classes after the first, we handed in the assignment in week 7 and were asked to resubmit by our lecturer since we forgot his name. We all figured he had dropped out, turns out he didn't but just never showed up for classes.

Another chick had a pretty critical responsibility in organizing one of our projects. It was her idea and all the contacts were hers so we asked her to do 3 or 4 things which involved interview questions and times to meet the contacts. We did the rest, got into the car to go meet the people on the day and she had done nothing, we did the work she was supposed to on the wa there and said we would do it again the week after and this can be a test run. The following week she bailed, we had to come up with something last minute and it basically f'ed the rest of us up.

The third guy we had a pretty critical meeting, it was the last chance we had to run through everything on an assignment that was worth something like 50%, the previous 3 weeks he had bailed on the meetings but that week he told us he would be there. He no shows again and we decide on relegating his role. Our lecturer was in on these meetings so pretty much knew what was going on, she baked him on the phone at the end of the class that day and said he would be in next week to do it. The following week he actually turned up and he went into it with no prep, I am pretty sure he came close to failing.

we just get friends in that class to peer review us all A's and then we do the same with them ;)