Group work- Your thoughts

[AOII_LB93]

I hate group work, which is probably why as a teacher I hardly assign any. I was always the student who actually did my part and didn't want my grade to be determined by others.

Group work horror story care of my husband: He took his capstone class for Business while doing his Bachelors. He was in a group with one of his fraternity brothers, and two other students he didn't know but the prof made them a group. They had to do some sort of analysis on a company so they chose the one my mother worked for as it was a huge company and she was able to give them a ton of information. Each group member did their own part and I was proofreading the final product one or two days before it was due (it was summer session) and found that BOTH of the other group members had lifted ENTIRE PAGES of their work from the company website without referencing anything at all.

When my husband and his brother confronted the other two, they said nothing are weren't willing to do anything about it. So both my husband and his bro went to the professor because they didn't want to get accused of plagiarism etc..., and the professor ultimately did nothing.

My husband was pissed...rightfully so, had he failed that class he wouldn't have gotten his degree as it was the last class for him.

[Buttonz]

Hate it with a passion. In JWU most of your major classes have group work. I've gotten paired with people who do nothing at all, professor gave us a chance to correct it, and I was the only one who did anything to try to salvage a decent grade. I prefer to work alone or with at most 1 other person.

[Kappamd]

Originally Posted by AOII_LB93

I hate group work, which is probably why as a teacher I hardly assign any. I was always the student who actually did my part and didn't want my grade to be determined by others.

Group work horror story care of my husband: He took his capstone class for Business while doing his Bachelors. He was in a group with one of his fraternity brothers, and two other students he didn't know but the prof made them a group. They had to do some sort of analysis on a company so they chose the one my mother worked for as it was a huge company and she was able to give them a ton of information. Each group member did their own part and I was proofreading the final product one or two days before it was due (it was summer session) and found that BOTH of the other group members had lifted ENTIRE PAGES of their work from the company website without referencing anything at all.

When my husband and his brother confronted the other two, they said nothing are weren't willing to do anything about it. So both my husband and his bro went to the professor because they didn't want to get accused of plagiarism etc..., and the professor ultimately did nothing.

My husband was pissed...rightfully so, had he failed that class he wouldn't have gotten his degree as it was the last class for him.

Thank you for, as a teacher, realizing everyone hates group work and choosing not to assign it. I hate when teachers are all, "I know you hate group work, but oh well! Let's do it anyways!"

I had to do a presentation in my Spanish class a couple years ago and we were assigned partners. My partner, a. could not speak Spanish to save his life, and b. didn't do shit to contribute to the project. I did the whole thing; his only responsibility was to make the visual aid (he had to do SOMETHING). It was supposed to be a mock commercial for some car, and he showed up with his CAR KEYS as the visual aid. Needless to say, I ripped him a new one, and didn't hold back in my partner evaluation.