SoTL Project Plan: Effectiveness of Group Self-Organization

A response to the Design Your SoTL Project Activity
created by Jessica Joy (@jessica.joy)

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Group or team-based assessments are frequently applied in the courses I teach; nearly every semester the groups experience common challenges related to self-organization, such as missed due dates, unbalanced workload distribution, lack of a communication strategy and general disconnectedness or lack of interdependence. This SoTL project aims to answer the question: Will the introduction of “group training” help groups more effectively self-organize, improve participation and motivate students to contribute fairly to groupwork?

 

 

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