[Cmul_merc] CMul project self-assessment process

[fp]

   Dear CMul students

  As I told you at the beginning of this semester, the Multimedia 
Communication course will include a self-assessment component in the 
final score of the project.

  To participate in this process, each student (not each paper as 
different members of the same group may make different estimates) should 
provide to a previously identified student representative, his/her 
‘estimate’ of the score for his/her project. The professor will have NO 
access to the student score estimates until late in the process. The 
scores should be on a 0-20 scale, only integer values.

   This year you should send your score estimates to Pema Chentsho at 
kel3ring at gmail.com by no later than Monday, May 23. Obviously, you 
should NOT send any score estimates to me as this will break the process 
for you.
  While participating in the self-assessment process may only bring 
gains to the students, those who will not send any score estimation to 
Pema by the defined deadline will be excluded from this process.

  After having my own scores, I will meet with Pema to check the score 
similarities.  At this stage, the students which estimated score is the 
same as my score will get a bonus of 1 point in the project score. The 
students which estimated score is ± 1 point regarding my score will get 
a bonus of 0.5 points in the final project score.

  While it may sound strange to you, every year a very large percentage 
of the students get a bonus.

  Regards
                                         Fernando Pereira

-- 
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Ph.D.
IEEE, EURASIP, IET Fellow, IEEE SPS BoG, EURASIP BoD, JPEG Reqs Chair
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Telecomunicações
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Phone:  + 351 21 8418460           Fax:    + 351 21 8418472
E-mail: fp at lx.it.pt WWW: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/