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Gendered Influences on Peer Assessments of Team Behavior

This Research Full Paper will examine how gender may correlate with peer perceptions of behaviors on engineering student project teams. While peer assessments are often used to encourage personal responsibility for group tasks (and discourage “social loafing”), they may fail to account for the way students’ attributes contribute to their perceptions of the behavior of peers. These perceptions may be inconsistently held from one person to the next and are driven by various factors (like gender), including the attributes of the judger, the individual being judged, the relationship between the two, and/or the group at large. This study seeks to answer: Does the perception of a peer’s team behavior (in terms of frequency or severity) vary with the gender identity of the individuals involved? This study uses a newly-created survey called the Team Behaviors and Attitudes Survey to assess the subjective perceptions of each of eleven undesirable teammate behaviors. Data has been collected from 47 teams, involving 329 unique pairings of students. For each of these behaviors, proportion tests and chi-square hypothesis tests are used to assess whether gender identity affects how severely and frequently behaviors are perceived, respectively. Males were found to often rate others more severely than females, regardless of the gender of the target. Other results were mixed, emphasizing the particularities inherent in perception creation.