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=====Giving and Receiving Feedback=====
As a Capstone coach you will have both the opportunity and responsibility to provide
feedback to teams as a whole and to students as individuals.  Your clear and candid
feedback provides students an opportunity to learn from their work and to improve
their performance.  Some of the formal opportunities for feedback are listed below.

====Attend stage reviews====

At the conclusion of each stage of development, your team will have a design
review to see if the team is ready to proceed to the next stage.  During these reviews
the quality and transferability of the product design will be evaluated by
one of the instructors and two of the coaches from your instructional pod.

Please make sure your team schedules design reviews when you can attend, and make
sure to attend the reviews.  Important suggestions are often given during the
reviews.  If you're not there to hear them, you can't help the team apply them.

In addition to evaluating your own team, you will be assigned as a review coach
to two teams in your pod.  Review coaches evaluate stage approval packages and
give feedback to the team in writing.  They also attend design reviews to give
verbal feedback.  As a review coach, make every effort to attend the stage reviews for your
assigned teams.  Your feedback will be invaluable.

====Evaluate the team====

Your evaluation of the team and the team members will provide important feedback to
the students.  Please make your evaluation both **honest** and **kind**.

===Regular peer evaluation===

Every student on the team will be expected to complete a peer evaluation twice per semester.  Once the evaluation
is complete, you will be given the results.  You should analyze the results and
share them with the individual members of the team to help them improve.

It is best if you take the time to discuss the results personally with each team
member, so you can best provide any support needed to help students as they
struggle to improve.

===Individual contribution assessment===

Students are expected to keep a record of their individual accomplishments that
move the project forward.  The team should decide which of the provided forms they
will use to track the project.  Team members should probably all use the same form,
although individual team members may elect to use a form requiring more careful time
tracking than the team selects, if they desire to do so.  See [[Individual Contribution Summary Worksheet]] for more details.

Twice per semester (in the middle and at the end) you should evaluate each team member's contributions and give the member a grade.  The mid-semester and 
end-of-semester grades constitutes 10% of the student's project grade. The dates for these reviews are found in the Coach Requirements tables for [[fall]] and [[winter]].

It is expected that most students will receive 100 on their individual contribution assessment.  All students who are full participants in the team should receive 100.  If students are not contributing full, drop their score accordingly.  Students who are providing little if any contribution to the team should have a score below 70.  Please talk with your pod instructor if you have any students who have scores below 70.

Some coaches have found that having brief weekly reviews of the individual accomplishments
can help the team make better progress.


===Talk with pod instructor about non-participating students===

Normally, all students on the team are fully engaged in the process. When all members
are fully engaged, all deserve to receive the team grade, even if some members have
higher contributions than others.

In rare instances, students will withdraw partially or completely from team participation.
If this happens on your team, please work immediately to get the withdrawing student back into
full participation.  If you are unable to do so, let the instructors
know as soon as possible.  We'd like to work together to solve the problem.
If our best efforts don't result in improving the situation, we'll need
to talk at
grading time to ensure a fair grade is given that represents the student's actual
participation.

====Receiving Feedback====

Students evaluate their coach twice per semester based on six categories:

  - Improving the performance of individuals and the team
  - Trusting and allowing the team to work on the project
  - Inspiring confidence and faith that the team can succeed
  - Providing guidance in applying the design process
  - Helping to find resources and technical help
  - Ability to provide the support the team requires

The Capstone Office will provide you with the amalgamated responses of your students for you to review.
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