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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Group work is fine when it's evaluated correctly. The teacher should be making sure that everyone has a role and a responsibility. The teacher should be grading on a rubric based on the roles and responsibilities. Kids need to learn that sometimes tasks can't be accomplished by one person, and often that lesson is learned when they completely and utterly fail to get it done when they don't work together. A good grading policy would be individual grading for the project itself base on successful completion of roles and responsibilities and then incentive for the whole group for successfully completing the project. [/quote]

I’m a former professor, and my group projects always had individual grades. No one was disadvantaged by others lack of participation, and believe me I knew who was and wasn’t pulling their weight. I also allowed sufficient time in class that most groups could complete the work there so that I was accessible and could keep an eye on things. My current HS junior just had an APUSH project run similarly. She hates the group aspect but appreciated that there was no out of class component, since having the teacher looking over their shoulders kept everyone relatively on track. [/quote]

This is an important part of it. If teachers want group projects for whatever reasons, they need to schedule time in class for it. The worst part of group projects is trying to find times and locations outside of school for kids to meet. It’s like herding cats with everyone’s schedules and when they’re younger, they need parents to drive them. [/quote]

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