New Peer Evaluation Program Aids AME Student Development

The inner workings and success of a student team can be more complex than a final grade on an assignment. Time management, teammate interaction and sufficient training can impact the project’s outcome as well as the team’s continued interest in their field.

To identify unseen problems and facilitate strong teamwork, leaders in the College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Capstone program introduced the CATME Peer Evaluation assessment this semester for all mentors and students. CATME – also known as the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness – allows users to confidentially rate each other’s work, keep the team on track, and benefit from behavioral team training.

“Since team members consider each other as friends, it was nice to give some constructive feedback anonymously without affecting the team dynamics and friendships,” said aerospace engineering student Sophie Miller. “My favorite feature is the ability to see where your team ranked on average in each category. This makes it easy to see where I can do better and where my team can do better.”

Miller said CATME is well-suited to the engineering teams because of how many different fields the capstone projects can involve.

Learn more about the CATME peer evaluation program from students here.