One thing I *usually* hate in school is group project. I don’t mind
working with people at all, prefer it actually, but when the group gets judged
as a group rather than individual efforts is what grinds my gears. People put
different amounts of efforts into projects and should judged upon that. I’m
pretty sure everyone has been in a group where at least one person slacks off
and someone else has to pick up their work so it doesn’t affect their mark.
This is what gets me going but I think I’m being hypocritical as I’m probably
guilty of doing this myself. I know most people would do this if they where
getting an individual assessment, but being assessed as a group gives them the
opportunity to give someone else in the group more work. Then there’s people
that really couldn’t care less about their mark regardless if it’s individual
marking or not and just screw around the whole time to their groups expense.
The people that actually get the work done need to pick up the other member’s
jobs and that just sucks. Sometimes they have to do the workload of a 3 or 4
person project pretty much by themselves just to have the people that didn’t do
jack get the same mark as them. This can develop bad habits in people when
working with others in later years when it’s something more serious than a high
school project.
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I also do not enjoy group work. There is always someone who does more work than the rest. As a teacher I try to note who is doing the most and least amount of work and adjust the group mark. Therefore everyone in the group doesn't receive the same mark.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Say we are doing an english project as a group now and some members just don't work at all, which makes it extremely harder considering that means you have more work to do as you said
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