Peer Ratings and Intentions to Change: Adopting the CATME to Explore Outcomes of Peer Ratings

摘要

Teamwork skill development is recognized as an important and pressing issue in engineering education. To better prepare graduates for industry there is a need to move beyond technical skill acquisition to ensure interpersonal and collaboration skills, such as teamwork capabilities, are honed and mastered through targeted undergraduate education initiatives. A partnership at the University of Calgary between the Individual and Team Performance Lab in the Department of Psychology and the Schulich School of Engineering has resulted in a new online platform that allows skill development through peer feedback. Specifically, this platform is free to use and provides instant emailed peer feedback to all team members for development and action planning purposes. Our vision is that the tool can become an internationally adopted and recognized assessment for enhancing teamwork capabilities in post-secondary education. We will describe the theoretical background, the tool, how to access it, and show example feedback forms during the presentation, as per the below descriptions. Anyone wishing to use this free platform should contact the first author.