Self-Reflection of Group Presentation (and Peer Grades)

Political Science 310

"The purpose of the self-reflection is to have you reflect on what you have learned from completing the assignment. I am not interested in having you give yourself a score or a grade, but I am interested in reading a short, reflective piece explaining how you believe you have benefited from the assignment." (Anderson) The self-reflection should discuss "the strengths and weaknesses of the [presentation] in a way to indicate that real learning has resulted from this assignment." In addition, the self-reflection should suggest "alternatives or solutions to any problems noted." (Anderson)

Each student should turn in a separate self-reflection by email (to goodliffe@byu.edu) within 24 hours of your presentation. Reread the "Group Presentation Guidelines" before writing. In your self-reflection, you may want to consider the following questions:

• What were the theories of the readings? How did we help the class understand these theories?
• What were the recent occurrences in American politics to which we applied the theories? How did they help exemplify the readings?
• How did we emphasize the themes in the presentation? How did we relate the theories and examples to American democracy? How did we include concepts of progress?
• How did the presentation analyze the themes and concepts clearly and concisely? How did we put the material in a theoretical framework that helped the other students to understand the arguments of the authors?
• How did we present the material in a timely and interesting manner? How were the examples recent and relevant?
• How well did you understand the concepts and themes? How did you include the most important elements? How did you correctly relate them to current practices in American democracy?

In your email, you also need to give grades to the peers in your group. Do not share these grades with your peers.

List the names of the other individuals in your group. Based on their contribution to the total effort, assign each individual a grade in letter or numeric form (on a 100 point scale). Keep in mind the following scale:

    A     A-    B+    B     B-    C+    C     C-    D+    D     D-    E
Excellent	    Good	   Satisfactory        Minimum   Unacceptable
						       Passing

An individual who receives an A must have made an outstanding commitment and contribution to the overall group effort. Individuals who may have been remiss in their responsibilities or difficult to work with should be assigned lower grades. Individuals who made little or no contribution to the effort should receive grades in the D and E range.

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