Volume 8
Volume 8, Number 23 |
June 8, 2010 |
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Julian M. Scher
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Abstract: Information Systems instructors are generally encouraged to introduce team projects into their pedagogy, with a consequential issue of objectively evaluating the performance of each individual team member. The concept of "freeloading" is well-known for team projects, and for this, and other reasons, a peer review process of team members, by team members, is often advocated. We propose an objective heuristic model for obtaining a scale of individual performance, based upon a generalization of Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment, where pair wise comparisons of team member’s performance are elicited with regard to various criteria, and we demonstrate how a scale may be obtained to objectively rate the individual members of each team. A numerical example is provided to illustrate our Generalized Thurstone model’s heuristic methodologies.
Keywords: Thurstone, paired comparison, team projects, peer evaluation, multi-criteria, individual performance
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Recommended Citation: Scher (2010). A Generalized Thurstonian Paired Comparison Multicriteria Heuristic Model for Peer Evaluation of Individual Performance on IS Team Projects. Information Systems Education Journal, 8 (23). http://isedj.org/8/23/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2009: §4343. ISSN: 1542-7382.)