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2.1.2. CATME 2

Throughout ENGR 13300, you will work closely with your team to complete engineering design activities. To support effective teamwork and professional skill development, we use CATME (Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness), a research-based system designed to help students reflect on and improve their teamwork performance.

This assignment is a CATME Peer Evaluation. You will evaluate your own contributions as well as those of your teammates. The purpose of this process is to promote accountability, encourage constructive feedback, and help all team members grow as effective collaborators.

Your responses are confidential and will be used by your instructor to monitor team functioning and support teams as needed.

For each team member (including yourself), you will:

• Rate contributions to the team using CATME’s performance categories (e.g., contribution, interaction, keeping on track, quality of work, and knowledge/skills).

• Reflect on overall teamwork performance.

• Provide written comments that explain your ratings.

CATME can be accessed through https://catme.org. Make sure to log in with your Purdue email. By default, emails from CATME will likely go to your junk folder in your Purdue email. We recommend adding CATME to your safe senders list (no-reply@catme.org).

How to give constructive feedback

This is an opportunity for you to check in with team members about how you have been functioning as a team, but this only works if your comments are helpful. No one likes to receive criticism, but we need to know where we struggle in order to grow as engineers. Start and end with things each team member does well, and include any constructive criticism in between. Criticism alone is not helpful, let your team member know how they can improve moving forward.

Example

Team 04 is made up of 4 members; Mark, Martha, Jordan, and Robin. Every time the team met to work on the assignment, Robin didn’t really participate. The rest of the team made decisions together. Robin often forgot what they talked about. The other team members became frustrated that Robin didn’t communicate well. Let’s look at the comments from each teammate’s comments in the CATME:

Mark’s Feedback

Robin likes to take leadership, but he can’t remember anything. He sends a lot of annoying group messages about things we already discussed. I don’t know how he gets anything done.

The feedback given by Mark is hurtful to his teammember and will not help Robin improve as a teammate or engineer. In fact, it may push him to dissociate from the group and become a less effective teammember. A comment like this may be blocked by the teaching team and may result in the submitter losing points on the survey.

Jordan’s Feedback

Robin is ok to work with. It is annoying that he forgets the things we discussed in meetings and sends messages to ask. If he just took better notes, we would be way more efficient.

The feedback from Jordan is not hurtful, but does not provide any ways that Robin can improve as a teammate. This could be improved by adding suggestions on changes Jordan may like to see from Robin, written in a constructive and respectful manner.

Martha’s Feedback

It is very helpful that Robin initiates to schedule team meetings and responds quickly to our messages. One area Robin could focus on is taking notes during our meetings. We could be more efficient as a team if we have a clearer understanding of what needs to be done. Actually, maybe all of us should keep and share notes so we are all clear on what was decided. I appreciate having Robin as a team member because he shares perspectives I hadn’t thought of before. Keep sharing, even if you disagree!*

The feedback from Martha starts with things that Robin does well and then moves into areas where Robin could improve, including examples of things that Robin and the team can do to improve their work. Martha also ends with an encouraging message to Robin, again stating positives about working with them. This feedback is likely to be well received by Robin and will help them improve as teammate for the remainder of the semester.

Remember that no one here is a perfect team member and everyone has ways they can improve. Also remember that while the comments will be annonymous, with only three to four members on each team, it is likely that your teammates will have guesses as to who wrote which comments. Do not write anything you would not say directly to your teammate. Writing can come across more tersely than intended, so read your words carefully and try to interpret how they will sound to someone else.

CATME Scores

Your score on the CATME survey will be based on completion of the survey and the quality of the written comments you leave for your peers.

In order to receive points for completing the CATME survey, you must include comments that are unique for each team member and are constructive.

• One or two word comments like “GOAT”, “Great person”, “Nice”, etc. will result in ZERO points

• Using the same feedback for each team member will result in ZERO points

Significance

CATME surveys are an important opportunity for you to inform your instructor of how your team is functioning. If you don’t communicate issues or challenges that your team is facing, your instructor will be unable to help you.

Use the “Confidential Comments to Instructor” box at the end of the survey to provide your instructors details on issues or challenges your team is facing.

Table 2.2 Deliverables

Deliverables	Description
Submission of your completed CATME survey	Complete the survey at https://catme.org