Please ignore this section if your group was assigned or you received written approval from your teacher.
Group of four (4) students. (2 < x < 5) -- Four is the perfect number.
Please ignore this section if your group was assigned.
Get into a group of four people for this Project. (Not necessarily the same members you had for the previous Project.)
You may choose a different group for each exercise. You should not feel obligated to stay with the same group for all projects for the term.
Exchange names and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses before leaving class today.
Before leaving the classroom today, you must organize your group activities for the next Class/Lab.
Where will you meet? What will everyone prepare before the meeting? How are you going to organize your meeting?
Don't leave the class today until you have a group.
Please send me a note immediately to tell me if you need someone else for your group (or if you don't have a group).
It is not acceptable to assign the total responsibility for any one section of the project to any one person.
Everyone in the group MUST participate in EVERY part of the project.
Everyone MUST read and proof-read the work written by all members of the group.
The group MUST discuss every part of the project. The group must meet regularly to discuss all aspects of the project.
If someone is too sick or too lazy or too disorganized to do his share, the group must still submit a completed high-quality project. This is a GROUP project.
Otherwise everyone in the group fails.
Don't forget that everyone in the group must submit a group evaluation once the project is finished.
This is a GROUP project.
Coordination of the group work.
No excuses!
ALL members of the group must participate in ALL PARTS of the Project.
It is unacceptable to assign a section of the Project to certain individuals. EVERYONE must participate.
Coordinated = ALL members of the group must participate in integrating ALL PARTS of the Project. = Cooperation = Organized = Team effort
Disorganized = Individuals did their part. The parts were copied&pasted into the final document. The group did not have meetings to discuss and modify the individual's work before incorporating it into the project.
Everyone must participate in preparing and writing ALL aspects of the paper. No single person should do all of one part of the paper.
The group MUST get together to plan, organize, and write the document. The assignment must be a group project, not just a series of sections that have been copied and pasted from the individual members' efforts.
Everyone is responsible for EVERYTHING. No excuses!
If someone in the group does not perform adequately, the group must still produce a high-quality Project.
If the paper is inadequate, everyone's mark will suffer.
Sickness:
If an individual is sick, this is not an excuse for the group. No excuses!
You have plenty of time to do this project. You need time management. You need leadership. Start early. Work harder. No excuses!
If an individual is lazy or incompetent or disruptive, only that individual's mark will suffer.
Each individual in the group must submit an evaluation of all the group members for that Project.
No excuses!
Leadership, responsibilities, communication - setting up the meetings, dividing the tasks, coordinating the work, calling/e-mailing
Someone has to take charge, be the leader, take responsibility for coordinating the group's work.
Time management - Start now, Don't wait till the last minute, organize a schedule of group goals and activities
Start early. Finish early.
Everyone in the group is responsible for everything the group does.
No excuses!
The result must reflect the efforts of a GROUP effort, not just a compilation of the work done by each individual. Everyone must be involved in every part of the project.
You are responsible for your group's work. You may not blame anyone else.
You MUST work TOGETHER with your group. The group must finish all the work even if some group members do not participate.
Everyone (usually) gets the same mark. Each group member must submit a peereval.htm.
The evaluation will be based on the quality of both the content and the presentation.
The evaluation will be based on the relevance and completeness of the content.
The evaluation of the oral presentation in class will include the presentation materials (handouts, ppt, etc.).
Criteria to consider
each individual's contribution to the overall project
Ranking (Likert scale) 1-5 or 1-7
Reliability = the degree to which you could depend on the individual to complete the assignment
Effort = the degree of initiative shown and time spent in team project work
Creativity = the degree of uniqueness of solutions offered to project-related problems
Cooperation = the degree to which the individual participated in, and worked toward, team goals
Analysis = the degree to which the individual contributed and the willingness he demonstrated in research and studying the decisions required by the team
Achievement = the degree to which the individual contributed to the overall success of your team's projects