These days, there are some debates among educators wether or not it is mor desirable for a group project to be evaluated ths same regardless of the individual students' performances.Some people say that it is best way to grade individual students while other people say that it is fair to grade the same.From my perspective, I agree with the former opinion because is is fair to evaluate individual student's performances and because it can promote project team more to be more cooperative.
Teachers need to evaluate group projects on an individual basis in order to be fair. No project can get done without a leader, who always puts in more effort than the others and is therefore deserving of a higher grade.For example, there was time that I did a group science project once.I was the leader and organized everything. I did a majority of the work while my partners sat back and watched me do everything.There even was a student who did not contribute an acceptable amount, so that the student should be graded lower.The student showed up late everyday, never did enough work, and always complained about everything. Despite my extra work, I got the same grade as everyone else.It was quite unfair of the teacher not to reward me for all of my work.Therefore, teachers should reward group leaders better grades than the rest.
If group projects were graded individually, it would lead to more cooperation by the team
members. This would stop students from being slakers ince they would realize their individual contributions were being graded.For instance,one of my teachers actually graded our group projects individually once, and the results were amazing.Even the lazy students contributed to the project lest they should fail their assignment.When the incentive to work exists, every student will begin to contribute.Therefore, evaluating students' performance in group project should be incoporated into a school's excution.
In conclusion, grading the same to evey student should changed into evaluating
individual students in group project.This is because it is not desirable for students to evaluate the same and it is able to have an opportunity to be more cooperative for every student.So these are the reasons why I support the idea that every student who participate in group project should be graded individually.
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