Visualizing Frequent Peer Assessment Results to Uncover Problems in Team Dynamics

Teamwork is beneficial for students' learning experiences. However, inherent challenges persist, including free-riding, conflicts, and communication issues. To tackle these issues, the use of peer assessment has been widely advocated, and practiced. For various reasons, however, peer assessment tends to be performed infrequently, limiting its utility for instructors to detect issues in, and intervene with, student teams during a course. One reason is that existing tools do not present peer assessment results over time, not for individual team members, nor for teams as a whole. In this experience report, we introduce a new dashboard that is specifically designed to address time, and report and reflect on the experiences of three instructors who used the dashboard to monitor teams in their courses and intervene when they thought it was necessary.