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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Using Micro Management Techniques to Overcome Problems in Group Assignments |
| Marilyn Ford and Jenny Morice |
| Griffith University, Australia |
| University of Portsmouth, England |
| Group assignments are becoming increasingly popular in education, including Information Technology education. |
| This paper explores problems with the use of group assignments and offers a new strategy designed to keep the |
| good features of group assignments while removing the negative. Many students in Information Technology |
| believe they should have group assignments because they will be working in groups in industry. Staff sometimes |
| justify the use of group assignments as preparing students for team work in industry. However, we suggest that |
| many problems with group assignments can be overcome by making group assignments more closely replicate |
| conditions in industry. We propose a three-phase strategy using management techniques on a small scale. |
| Keywords: group assignments, inequities in marking, industry-like group experience |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
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