L’évaluation individuelle dans un projet collectif. Quand la notation se met au service du mérite

Company projects, work groups, collaborative activities… numerous terms are associated with the key notion of the group project. This concept, which is often used in universities to refer to the know-how and interpersonal skills of an individual in a group, is proving to be a highly important issue for companies. It develops collective competence in its ability to regulate and harmonize work to give it a successful and effective objective. It also develops individual competence through the development of personal and professional skills in this collective task. The challenge for university pedagogy is to develop this mechanism of development of the self toward others in order to give the team its maximum collective strength thanks to the actions and singularities of each of its members. The group project is proposed in a training course as a teaching unit. A full-scale experiment was carried out with an entire cohort of students from two third-year undergraduate courses at the Université de Lorraine in order to test new evaluation protocols. These tools, which are easy to use for the evaluators, show the importance of creating an objective and quantified arbitration between the work done by the whole team and the contribution of each student member of the team. The results of these evaluations show the simplicity of implementing these tools with a view to wider deployment as well as the importance of highlighting the merit of the students who took on the most responsibility.