Given what you learned in this lesson, what additional recommendations do you have? If you do not have additional recommendations, reflect the those that your fellow student made: what is the likelihood of success from these recommendations?

Do you have any questions about this case for your fellow student that would help you better apply the lesson material?

Last semester I was in a class where all students were put into groups and then each group had a project with multiple parts to it that then needed to be presented aloud to the class once the project was complete. Each person in the group was responsible for a part of the presentation and each person was only allowed to work on that part of the presentation. Then the groups all presented their projects and each person was graded on their research, attention to detail, effort, and their speech. Then all grades were added and averaged to come up with the final grade for all members.

2. While I can understand that this professor was trying to teach that when in a group project it is important to do your part just as much as you would any other assignment so that your group earns the grade and is well prepared. Though this relates to the topic of Equity Theory as discussed in this weeks lesson. It is where in this case students are held accountable for their effort, attention to detail, research, and speech preparation as their inputs and their output is their final grade. Though this way of grading the project may lead to students either feeling like it is unfair how some students may put in a lot of effort and others dont, then leading to the ones who did put in a lot of effort to be penalized for others actions. Or vice versa if majority of the students in the group excel on the project and only one does not, the group will still recieve a decent grade, then others are benefitting from something that actually harmed another persons grade.

3. I believe that this should not be how group projects are graded unless the entire project is equally worked on all aspects by everyone. It does not allow for fairness among all group members if they all recieve the same grade for something they did not all have input on. I would recommend doing individual grades when doing a project as described.