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Teaching in Learning Groups: The Power of Peer Participation and Evaluation of Performance

KEYWORDS: Experiential Learning, Peer Evaluation, Performance Appraisals

In keeping with the theme of service, this discussion focuses on how students learn to be of service to others during the semester of class. Students are placed in groups of diverse learning styles at the beginning of the semester and must rely upon each other to complete assignments and participate in class activities (Osland, Kolb, Rubin, & Turner, 2007). At the end of the semester students conduct performance appraisals on team members as a means of teaching experientially this important topic. Experience teaching in this manner over the past 4 years in an Organizational Behavior course will be shared. In addition, this session provides an opportunity to engage with others as to how performance appraisals and peer feedback is conducted by others through discussion with participants.

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