Will you feel bad for marking someone down?

Singapore
May 20, 2009 9:19am CST
Well, we were given a peer evaluation to fill up for our report today. Out of 10, i gave my other group members 1s and 2s. Reason being, they either don't give me their split up parts, or give me incomplete work or things that are not related at all. I end up having to re-do their parts. Well, i talked about my peer eval result givings to my parents and my dad said that i was too harsh. But was I? What would you have done if you were me? You spend nights re-doing their work.
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5 responses
20 May 09
I think you have to withdraw yourself from the situation and relationship you have with the person, whoos work you are marking, wheateher it is a good relationshipp, or bad. But if you feel that is the right mark for the work they have done then its not harsh. If thats your actually informed decision then dont feel bad, you cant change your opinion and you shouldnt have had to re-do the work yourself.
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• India
20 May 09
You must always try to improve the skills of your group members (even if they are your peers), guiding them if they were not giving the desired results.This would have projected you as a leader and also your other group members would have given you more points for your helpful nature. Also even i feel that 1s and 2s are just too harsh. But anyways whenver you are in a team each and everyone is one unit and must look out for each other. This is what i belive and practice at my work What do you say?
• Singapore
20 May 09
i know where you're coming from... just that it gets really tough to control my anger especially when i'm doing up work in the middle of the night and there they are sleeping...
@VarunUK (10)
• India
21 May 09
Friend we should help others, but it dont mean that you should do all thier work. That way you will be spoiling their tallent. The thing that you have done I think is not that harsh. You have done the the justice. If I was in your placed and doing all that work I should have done the same thing. Don't worry friend you are right. No one can blame you for what you have done.
• United States
21 May 09
I have been through this before, I was doing this group project and mainly only me and antoher kid did ALL the work, and I got angry, because the day before we had to turn it in, I slept at 3:00a.m. finishing the project... While the other kids were probably sleeping happily, with good dreams, and you know what, you should teach them alesson, and next time, you should do the right choice, of not being in the same group as them!
@sjvenden27 (1840)
• United States
21 May 09
No I would not feel bad about marking someone down because of the lack of partication that person gave.. The whole point about a group project is to work together as a team, not one or two students doing the rest of the project over due to lack of effort on their parts.. When I was in college there were several group projects that we had to do.. I remember one time I was a group leader.. And there was one student that didnt really want to do the work, really didnt want to give any feed back.. When we had to do our peer evaluations, the instructor asked me why I gave this particular student a low mark? I explained the situation, and he agreed with me, that person did not recieve the same over all grade as the group did.. Yes it was completely unfair that you had to redo someone's work, but you did a great job as a leader fixing the problem so the rest of the group did not have to suffer because of the rest.. Keep up the Good work