The authors have developed a methodology for teachers to help them to evaluate the performance of a team of students in engineering project-based courses. The methodology was given the name PAINTER and in this paper we demonstrate it with a case study. We use PAINTER to evaluate an engineering project-based course-Formula Student/Formula SAE. The course has been run for 10 years and has the same objective every year-to improve the last year's design. The performance of the team-measured by the score received at competitions-has been around the same level all the years. Efforts taken by teachers to improve the performance of the team have ended in vain. The results show that by using the methodology teachers get a good understanding of potential issues preventing the team from advancing. PAINTER is a relatively easy to use, yet powerful, tool that can be systematically used to identify performance issues. Using PAINTER each factor must be evaluated and scored using reasoning-this systematic approach results in good understanding of the team's dynamics. PAINTER makes issues more prominent and helps the user to decide which issues need to be explored. Although PAINTER was designed for evaluating team of students it is a tool that should be useful for evaluating the performance of other types of teams, e.g., in industry. © 2021 Tempus Publications. All rights reserved.
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