Group Work
Group assignments are becoming increasingly common in classes across the university. On rare occasions, they turn out to be great learning experiences for students. More commonly, they become nightmares for the students involved and for the instructor. The resources in this section can help you create group assignments in ways that are more beneficial for students and less of a problem for you.
- Team-Based
Learning
Resource materials, specific suggestions, and video clips highlight this comprehensive website from the University of Oklahoma.
- Collaborative
Learning: Group Work and Study Teams
Discussion of all aspects of group work from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Cooperative
Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs
Extensive list of specific suggestions, along with supporting material, by Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University and Rebecca Brent, School of Education, East Carolina University. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service Report ED 377038 (1994))
- Collaborative
Learning: Students Working in Small Groups
An excellent resource from the Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching, Winter 1999, Vol. 10, No. 2. Of particular note is the section entitled A Preparatory Checklist for Collaborative Tasks—a series of questions to ask yourself before launching into small group work. (Downloads as a PDF file.)
- Grading
Class Participation
Written by Martha L. Maznevski, an Assistant Professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, this article provides background information, rationale, and a rubric for grading class participation. From the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia.
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