Do you do group #assessments for your #highered courses? How do you deal with "free-riders" who don't engage with the rest of the group?
At the moment I'm thinking of
- having students include a statement of who has done what in their final product
- having a couple of sessions (beginning of term and mid-term) where each group presents a plan first and a short progress report later, which clearly states student contributions
- stress to the students that part of the idea for a group assessment is for them to organise and work in a group. I'm a bit torn on this one as it seems unfair to put the onus for those who don't engage on those who do... but hey that's what happens in real life...
Any other ideas?
@nicolaromano how about flipping the assessment to an individual one but designing the activities to require teamwork? In my own case I have pairs embedded in a group of 8 and the assessment required them to work as pair the get the basic info, and that basic info needs to communicate to the group so the group as whole will have correct understanding of the assignment and therefore they will be able to do the assessment at individual level, failing teamwork fails there own marks
@kofanchen This is a very good idea. The specific nature of this particular assessment might make it a tad difficult to implement but I can think of other use cases for sure! Thank you!
