Justice Achieved Through Peer Evaluation

A victory for justice at Texas A&M occurred earlier this week when junior marketing major Cassandra Wells gave a 2/10 on a peer evaluation to project teammate Wayne McCoy. Following a marketing presentation, the teams were required to complete an evaluation of their peers. Students in the class gave all members at least a 7/10 until Wells broke the trend, becoming irritated with the general complacency of her peers.

“I can’t believe that the other students don’t even think about how much work each person did,” said Wells. “They simply hand out good evaluations willy nilly without regard for teaching the slackers a lesson.” Wells expressed great concern with the disparity of justice she had witnessed in almost every class within Mays Business School. “Students I have done projects with have never given anyone in the group less than a 9/10, but I deserve that because I do all the work and they don’t even care,” Wells continued. She has begun advocating to business professors in hopes of implementing effort-based evaluations.

Wells additionally referenced the abuse of peer evaluations as a direct violation of the Aggie Honor Code. “Wayne was stealing my time and effort and through that spitting on the code we stand by here,” she said.

Wayne McCoy, the recipient of the heavy hand of justice had few words to offer in rebuttal. “I mean I was ten minutes late to one project meeting, but I filled out my portion of the slides,” said McCoy. “At our first meeting, Cassandra offered to do the bulk of the research, and I continued to volunteer more help, so I guess this kind of came as a surprise.”

Other students on the team communicated that McCoy had done a sufficient amount of work. The professor of the class had nothing to add to this as she was occupied recycling the paper used for the peer evaluations.

 

—Koldus & Cream