Why are my students not rating their teammates?
If Rater Practice is enabled on your survey, there is a good chance that some students did Rater Practice thinking it is the required Peer Evaluation survey . Make sure the students know how to access the survey to rate their real teammates.
Why am I seeing a blank Quick Summary page?
Once a survey is six months old, it will not be shown on your Quick Summary page. Check the “Show Surveys Older than Six Months” to view surveys that are more than six months old.
Why can’t I see the “View Results” or “Data and Teams” buttons?
The “View Results” button for Peer Evaluation and the “Data and Teams” button for Team-Maker only become available once the survey period has started, otherwise there would be no results to view.
Why can’t I receive messages from CATME?
If you don’t receive email messages from CATME, these are the most common reasons.
- CATME messages are in the junk or spam folder of your email account.
- Your software or email server is blocking the CATME IP addresses. Your ISP has to permit catme.org. This is relevant if you are working from a home computer or an off-campus server. Try moving to a campus computer and logging in from there.
For further help, please contact support@catme.org.
I encountered a blank screen when using Mozilla Firefox. Why?
While a few problems with versions of Mozilla Firefox have been reported, the design team has not been able to replicate them. If you have an issue when using Mozilla Firefox, please use a different browser, such as Chrome or Internet Explorer.
How do I get rid of ‘release survey’ reminder emails?
Reminder emails can be eliminated by simply releasing the survey results–to students, to researchers, or to no one.
What does “enable extra messages” do?
The CATME Peer Evaluation instrument uses the data it collects from students to recognize certain “exceptional conditions”– dysfunctional teams, over- or under-performing students, etc. When the system recognizes one of these conditions, the system normally provides the affected students with an additional informational message at the top of their survey results. You may choose to have the system NOT display these messages by unchecking this box.
Do students see Peer-to-Peer Comments when the data is released?
Students will see Peer-to-Peer Comments as long as the “Enable Peer-to-Peer Comments” box is checked. If you do not wish to share the Peer-to-Peer Comments with students, uncheck this box before releasing the survey results.
What results do students see when the data is released?
The students will receive an email inviting them to log into the system to see their feedback. This includes a display of each of the five CATME Peer Evaluation behaviorally anchored rating scales (or just the ones you assigned if you didn’t assign all five dimensions), which includes:
- The student’s self-rating – indicated by an arrow in the first column labeled “How You Rated Yourself”
- The average rating assigned to the student by the team – indicated by an arrow in the second column labeled “How Your Teammates Rated You”
- The average rating on the team – indicated by an arrow in the third column labeled “Average Rating For You and Your Team”
- The complete behaviorally anchored rating scale on which the Peer Evaluation ratings were made.
- (optional) If you checked the box on the Class Editor page to include extra messages to students, they will see research—based suggestions to improve their performance on each dimension that you surveyed.
You can see the specific feedback results that any particular student will receive by going to the Summary Report Page for the Peer Evaluation. Look for the text that says “Preview results page for student.” (Only available after the survey is released) Click on the drop-down menu to find the particular student whose feedback you wish to preview, and click the “Preview” button.
How do I release the results from a Peer Evaluation survey?
On the Activity Results page, there is a button that says “Release” in the bottom left corner (you may have to scroll down to see it). Above the button is a drop-down menu indicating the different options to release the results to students, to researchers, or to no one. Make sure to select the desired option, then click the “Release” button.