Abstract
Laboratory course in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Programmes at the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, has introduced the peer group evaluation, presentation, reports submitted by groups/individual as assessment tools for 3rd year laboratory course. The experiments for the course is done in group and students has to submit two types of reports called long report (group) and short report (individual). The major problem of the group effort is that there are students who did not cooperate and participate in the experiment which in turn affects other students mark in the group. Peer group evaluation and short reports contributed up to 5% to 45% to the total marks of the course respectively. In this study, we evaluated marks of peer group and short report in overall performance of a student. Results indicated that both marks can be used to differentiate student who actively participate in the experiment with those who is a passive member of the team.
Highlights
Every student in the engineering department is compulsory to undergo laboratory courses or experiments aimed at understanding the theory they have learned during the lecture
This paper aims to prove that the assessment that we practice in the department managed to differentiate those students who did not actively participate in the experiment by using data from 4 courses coded KB3512, KR3512 and KB3612, KR3612 for 1st and 2nd semester at session 2011/2012 involving a total of 58 students from both programmes offered by the department
The students were asked to judge and marks their team members honestly based in the evaluation form which is normally distributed at the completion of the course
Summary
Every student in the engineering department is compulsory to undergo laboratory courses or experiments aimed at understanding the theory they have learned during the lecture. The laboratory classes in organized in group of 3 to 4 students per group which requires them to practice good team skills. The laboratory course could become a venue to foster teamwork skill (Noorhisham & Norliza, 2011; Norliza et al, 2011; Norliza & Noorhisham, 2010). Evaluation for laboratory courses at year 3 in the Department of the Chemical and Process Engineering, (JKKP), has include individual (short reports), group effort (long reports) and peer evaluation.
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