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Subject: group or peer work?

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Steve Draper
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28/05/2007 19:43  

Hi Quintin
Here’s a question on your case study. I’m going from my notes, so tell me if I’ve got this wrong.

You say your design is groupwork, but to me it seems as if it’s all solo work.
It IS peer assessment, but not groupwork. That’s not bad. All the tasks are one student working alone. To be groupwork it would have to be something other than single students delivering their tasks as dictated by the teacher.

Am I wrong?

Whaddya think about that?
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SteveD
Quintin Cutts
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29/05/2007 07:36  
Hi Steve,

You're absolutely right! I don't think of this as groupwork - because as you say, all the components of the coursework are undertaken as solo work - the essay writing, reviewing, marking and so on.

In a larger sense, I might have referred to it as groupwork, where the group is the entire class, because I am trying to instill a sense of responsibility in them [i]all[/i] to support one another's development. To be responsible, they must partake fully in the exercise: write an initial draft essay; review the essays of other students, mark some reviews, write a response to reviewers, and mark that r-to-r. If they don't write the initial draft or the reviews or the r-to-r, in particular, they are letting other students down, by not enabling those other students to take part in the process fully. Ha ha, by not taking part in the marking, they are letting me down, as I'll need to mark the ones they've missed!

I guess there's a drawback in that I set the penalties for not being responsible - the 1.0 multiplier scheme against their final mark that reduces as the number of coursework components they didn't complete rises.

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