Group work

Sally Brown: Emerita Professor of Higher Education Diversity in Teaching and Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University

Brief description of session and activities

Although employers are keen to recruit graduates who are effective team members, universities don’t always prepare students as effectively as they could to work and be assessed in groups. Poorly designed assessed group work can be divisive and unpopular with students so this workshop is designed to enable participants to consider:

What kinds of things go wrong in group work, particularly when it is assessed;
How to prepare students for working in groups through appropriate briefing and rehearsal;
Ways of assessing students in groups that are fit –or-purpose depending on the scale and scope of the assignment.