Trusted Relative Peer Review: A Novel Approach to Assess an Individual in Team Based Learning

The major challenge of Team Based Learning (TBL) or Group learning is its Design and Implement that assess the student's knowledge and skills. The challenge also includes designing assessment to grade the students based on their contribution to the team performance. Teacher assessing the student's performance in team is a teacher biased process. Therefore Peer evaluation can be included as part of TBL assessment. Peer review is considered as transparent and efficient technique to assess individual in team. But it has also been criticized with respect to fairness. This paper proposes Trusted Relative Peer Review (TRPR) which reduces the disadvantages of peer review to greater extent. It includes two reviews i) Team's Guide review ii) Peer review. The trustworthiness of peer review is decided based correlation of Guides and Peer reviews, depending on which each student is rated relatively for 100 points. After comparisons of results, 65% student teams peer reviews were found to be not trustworthy, which are corrected through proposed TRPR. This review is accepted by 54-58% of students and trusted it. TRPR helped to measure "ability to function in a team" with attainment of 7.7 on the scale of 10. TRPR contributes to the success of TBL implementation in greater extent by overcoming the drawbacks of peer review. It influences individual student's marks based on their contributions. Therefore it ensures students contribute in group work resulting in students learning. Although TRPR is hectic, future work shall try to make it simple.