Tests, bonus and code names
What is marked, what earns a bonus, how your papers stay anonymous
Weighting
| Component | Weight | When | Marked how |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual tests (four) | 60 % | Weeks 2, 4, 6, 7, first hour of the morning | Pen and paper, anonymous, marked |
| Team tests (four) | 15 % | Same mornings, straight after the individual test | The same items, answered as a team, marked |
| Group project | 25 % | Weeks 2–7; poster session Thu 12 November, afternoon | Four parts of 25 points, group mark (see below) |
| Simulation report | required | Weeks with a Pearson simulation | Handwritten, pass/fail against a scoring matrix handed out in advance |
| Bonus sheet | next test grade 0.3 better | Weeks 1–6, 14:10–15:30 | Counts or does not count (see below) |
Peer evaluation. Your share of the group mark (team tests and project) is multiplied by a peer evaluation factor, as is common in Team-Based Learning: at the end, members rate each other’s contribution. Carried your part → full group mark. Method: see Peer evaluation at the end of this page.
The four tests
| Test | Thursday | Chapters | Bonus sheets that count |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Week 2 · 8 Oct | Ch. 1, including the Frito-Lay and Hard Rock Cafe cases | Week 1 |
| T2 | Week 4 · 22 Oct | Calculations: crossover charts (process types, vehicles), life cycle cost, carbon footprint, capacity and efficiency; the Backhaus Kaya case calculations (Ch. 7 + S7, S5; cases of S5 and S7) + two Ch. 1 calculations (learning path) | Week 2 (written in Week 3) |
| T3 | Week 6 · 5 Nov | Ch. 6 + S6, Ch. 4 | Weeks 4 and 5 |
| T4 | Week 7 · 12 Nov | Ch. 11 + S11, Chopra Ch. 3, Ch. 13 | Week 6 |
- Recognition and calculation items; calculations as on the exercises pages and bonus sheets, with new numbers
- Individual, then team: alone on paper, hand in, then the same items as a team
- No book, no laptop
Every test, in six phases
Readiness assurance
Prepareread the chapter · solve the example problems
iRATindividual test, alone
tRATsame items, as a team
Feedbackanswers and open questions
Appeals3–4 days after the test
Applicationteam work on real problems, the group project
The phases of Team-Based Learning, after Michaelsen et al. (2004).
The group project
- Your TBL team simulates one real product’s line and supply chain when the key supplier fails
- 25 %, group mark × peer factor · final submission Wed 11 Nov, 23:59 · poster session Thu 12 Nov
- Everything else: Group project
The bonus sheet
Weeks 1–6, end of the afternoon: four to six calculation items, alone, on paper, in class, laptops and phones closed. Every sheet has its own numbers.
- Upload. Scan the sheet with your phone and upload it to the week’s ILIAS exercise by 15:30, file name = your code name.
- When it counts. Every item is attempted with the calculation path visible, and more than half of the results are correct.
- What it earns. Your grade on the next test improves by 0.3 (for example from 2.3 to 2.0), and only if that test is passed. The sheets of all weeks that feed a test count toward that test (table above).
- Why in class. At home an AI would do the sheet; in the room it measures you.
Handed out in class only; training: the exercises pages.
Your code name
- A pioneer of operations management with a year, e.g. Babbage1791; handed out on the first Thursday, kept all semester
- On every bonus sheet and test paper, instead of your name
- The pairing stays with the instructor; the ILIAS upload shows your account, but the paper is marked anonymously
- Look your pioneer up: each one changed how work is done
Peer evaluation
Fink’s method (O’Dwyer, 2020):
- 100 points per student, distributed among the other members of your team, by contribution; equal points are allowed
- Peer score = the points you receive from your teammates; with equal points it is 100
- Your multiplier = peer score ÷ 100, applied to your team-test and group-project marks
- Example: team mark 80, peer score 95 → 80 × 0.95 = 76; peer score 105 → 80 × 1.05 = 84
- Your points change your teammates’ grades: give them with care