Fair and Individualized Project Teamwork Evaluation for an Engineering Course

Teamwork skills are critical to obtain for every engineering student. Numerous research has outlined this necessity and studied teamwork from various aspects. Yet, from the point of grading, teamwork is one of the task forms that is difficult to evaluate, especially in comparison to individual evaluation. Several criteria may affect the evaluation, and also how the final result is perceived by students - fair or unfair towards them. In this paper a method that was applied to evaluate and advance group teamwork for a systems engineering course in a European university is discussed. The method allows to individualize teamwork results by team members, advantaging of team feedback and self-evaluation. This paper introduces the method, and looks into how applying this method affected the final results of teamwork projects.