Assessment of Student Work on Geographically Distributed Information Technology Project Teams

There are issues in assessing the contributions of individual students on geographically distributed student teams working on information technology projects. At Pace University we have been using real-world student projects in capstone computing courses for about ten years. While the courses were conducted in a classroom environment during the early years, the current course has been essentially online for the last three years in order to reach a greater number of students. Through peer evaluations and other remote assessment techniques we have found it possible to assess the work of students on distributed teams.

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