NARRATIVE ON GROUP 2

Engineer: Grade received: B

This engineer is a new student to our school and in the right group will stay focused. He is an average (B) student. He was very serious in this group and stayed on task. He especially worked well with the architect. They communicated and readjusted their work as necessary. His time calculations were off and we were not sure what he did to get the figures he did.

Architect: Grade received: A

This architect is an average C-B student, is responsible, and works well with others. She worked with the engineer closely to establish the speed and time. We suspect that the engineer did most of the calculations on the blueprint. Her scale is accurate but does not match the maquette (3-D Model.) The artistic rendition should have been on the other side of the poster board and needed to include more detail. Several architects did not include the background setting.
****The calculations for these two students on total time are confusing and we are not sure on how they came up with their numbers. Had we more time we would have talked with them and redirected their work so it would be easier to understand. It appears that a majority of the calculations are accurate.

Researcher: Grade received: B

This researcher is a very popular, attention-getting student. He is a mostly "A" student who goofs around often. He was quite calm in this group because of the mixture of personalities. His paper was slightly above-average work with an incorrect citation page. He could of done better but it was good enough for the group to use for their presentation.

Public Relations/Presenter: Grade received: A

This was her second time doing a PowerPoint presentation. She downloaded some photos off the Internet and from our digital camera to represent the group's work. She included information from all her group's work but neglected to use persuasive techniques to sell the design. She mentioned in her journal that she had some ideas on how to sell it but we did not see evidence of that in the presentation. She was definitely the leader of the group and did a good job at pulling everyone together. (Note: We tried to put a student like this in every group because we knew it would take her type of personality to pull things together. Presenters definitely had one of the harder jobs and the least supervision.)