Team Member Citizenship

We have been invited to use an assessment system called TIDEE - Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education that is originated at Washington State University and the University of Idaho.

This system has 14 assessments that are used throughout the design process to both improve the process and improve the individual. Last week we used our first assessment. It is on team member citizenship. Students completed 4 tasks.

• Ranking importance of different aspects of team citizenship to their team.
• Rating each member of their team on a scale of 1-5 on each of 12 different aspects of team contribution.
• Awarding a percentage of work done by each member (to total 100%).
• Picking a strength of each member and writing paragraphs of the importance of that strength and evidence supporting it.
• Picking an area in which each member needs further development and then writing paragraphs on why that area is important to the team and steps the member might take to improve.

After turning this all in the students get reports showing how they and their teammates stand in regards to these important attributes. I find this tool to be useful in helping faculty and students move towards improvements and provide evidence of achievements.