Thursday, October 14, 2010

Grading the Book Review

I think our book review projects should be graded as a group, since there was so much emphasis put on collaboration and working with all the members in our group and whatnot. I think in extreme cases, if it is obvious that one person did all the work or there is a person who clearly did no work, or none compared to the work of the other group members, then that should be taken into account and the person (people) who did not contribute enough will be penalized - but again this is only in the case that the work was obviously not shouldered by the entire group. I think there are parts (if not the whole) of the project that could easily be done by one person, so the fact that such emphasis was put on group cooperation and participation should mean that the group as a whole will be graded for it's ability to incorporate these qualities into the project. I think grading this project as a group will also give more incentive for all the group members to participate, especially if it is known that if all do not participate there will be a penalty. While grading individually would also provide such an incentive, I think that if the point of the project is to cooperate together and share the work, then the grade should be shared as well, and the penalization of slackers will be kind of a look-over-the-shoulder to guide participants to do their share of the work.

2 comments:

  1. Well said, Erin. While I think that there should be two grades (one group and one individual), I see how what you've proposed could also work well. For a group like mine, which isn't able to meet often or communicate amongst each member as well as we'd like, I think the two-grades-option would be best. For a group that is able to meet more often than mine, though, and is able to contact each other easily and without much hassle in terms of email or phone use, then the group grade alone would definitely be best.

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