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Identifying free riders in group work

This activity enables students to assess their peers' contribution to group work. Teachers can thus identify students who are not very involved in group work, commonly referred to as "free-riders". This approach encourages individual responsibility within teams and promotes a fair distribution of tasks.

💡 Select the model in ChallengeMe to launch this one-click activity!

🎯 Activity objectives

The main objective is to empower students and ensure an equitable distribution of work within groups. This method aims to encourage active participation by all members, develop objective evaluation skills in students, and prepare learners for the realities of collaborative work in a professional environment.

👍 Benefits

  • Encourages involvement of all group members
  • Develops a sense of responsibility and team spirit
  • Enables a fairer assessment of individual contributions
  • Helps teachers identify group dynamics problems
  • Prepares students for the realities of collaborative work in the workplace
  • Encourages self-reflection and continuous improvement
  • Facilitates conflict management within teams
  • Develop communication and constructive feedback skills

📝 Example of criteria

  • Quality of work
  • Group communication
  • Taking the initiative
  • Meeting deadlines
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Contribute to the group's ideas and creativity

💡 Select the "Free-riders" criteria collection in the platform

⚙️ How does it work?

Evaluation of group members

Evaluation and feedback of group members

Students evaluate the members of their group using the evaluation criteria defined by the teacher. 

They can also give feedback.

This phase also includes a self-assessment

Results display

Students discover the evaluations and feedback they have received, according to the display options they have defined.

Results can be hidden if required, if the teacher does not want students to have access to them.

Use the different valuation methods

Choose the evaluation method that suits you best.

  • Predefined options
  • Scales from 1 to 10 stars
  • Score out of X points
  • Checkboxes
  • Feedback only

Add extra phases

You can use a "simple" activity or add additional deposit or evaluation phases.

Enrich the experience with our AI assistant

Why not use our AI assistant to guide students in their feedback. The assistant can give them elements to improve their feedback and make it more constructive.

How do you set it up in ChallengeMe?

👉 Select the "Identify free-riders" template in ChallengeMe

This phase represents the work carried out by the group. As we do not want students to upload their work to the platform, the "External upload" option is checked by default("Options" tab).

👉 Enter the groups concerned in this phase - https://bit.ly/42pEPMw

Inform :

👉 Preferred dates - https://bit.ly/47Zxohi

👉 Instructions - https://bit.ly/41RqnNh

👉Evaluation criteria - https://bit.ly/3Va7GkG

Inform :

👉 Score calculation date ("Dates" tab)

👉 Display options (if you want the results to be visible to participants)

Don't forget to publish your challenge

💡 Tips

  • Upstream preparation: Clearly explain the aims of peer assessment and its importance in the learning process. Make sure students understand the evaluation criteria and how to apply them objectively.
  • Creating an environment of trust: Encourage an atmosphere of constructive, benevolent feedback. Emphasize the importance of honesty and objectivity in evaluations.
  • Monitoring and intervention: Monitor assessment results to quickly identify potential problems within groups. Intervene proactively if you see major discrepancies in assessments or signs of conflict.
  • Feedback and discussion: Set aside time to discuss the results with students, either individually or in groups. Use these discussions as learning opportunities to improve teamwork skills.
  • Iteration and continuous improvement: Consider running several evaluation cycles over the course of the project to allow students to improve and adjust their behavior based on the feedback they receive.
  • Weighting evaluations: Consider incorporating peer review results into the final project score, but take care that this does not become a source of conflict or manipulation.
  • Evaluation training: Offer brief training or resources on how to give constructive feedback and objectively evaluate the work of others.
  • Reflection and self-assessment: Encourage students to reflect on their own performance and assess themselves alongside their peers.
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I have used it for over two years as part of the peer-to-peer evaluation, and student feedback regarding fair and equitable treatment and job distribution has been very positive. As a professor, it is very important to me that student evaluations are fair and just, and the Challenge Me app helps me achieve this.
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Implementing Challenge Me for peer-to-peer review has improved students' experience of group work. Indeed, as each student is evaluated by his or her peers at the end of the group work, and we include this grade in the student's final grade, the individual final grade reflects the individual contribution of each student to the work. This encourages students to get involved in the work.
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ChallengeMe is the most intuitive peer review platform I've experienced so far as a university lecturer!
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Answers to your questions

How can I be sure that the assessments are fair and objective?

ChallengeMe offers clear and precise evaluation criteria that you can customize. What's more, the anonymity of assessments and the possibility of having several assessors per job help ensure fairness.

We also recommend preparing the students, explaining the objectives, and even co-constructing the criterion grid with them, taking examples from previous work.

Absolutely, group work is possible, both in the response phase (submitting a file as a group, for example) and in the evaluation phase (students must agree on feedback and evaluations).

We have a wide range of content available. On the platform, students are guided through the activity with tips for giving relevant feedback. We also provide teachers with documents they can use to present the activity to students.

The choice is yours! You can set up a formative system only (no grades, only feedback), or build a grade with weighting on criteria, bonuses/maluses according to certain events (lateness, for example), or even weight the peer assessment grade with the teacher's grade.

We work with over 90 schools in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec. On our website, you'll find feedback from other schools on our activities.

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