Now days, due to expansion of selfishness, many students tend to avoid group working and claim that they should get all different grade because of the possibility that being in group could have been harming their grade compared to their effort. However, I believe that receiving same grade should be practice in grading group for following reasons; it goes against what its purpose and often leads to serious confliction throughout entire one’s relationship.
To begin with, if students receiving different kind of grade due to their participation, group working become aimless and worthless. Apparently, there is abundant way to evaluate each of students’ performance by taking exam. On the other hand, grading students’ cooperation is only limited to group working since it grades upon how well members cooperated. It is obvious that the not all of members does put their all effort on performing and participate. However, it is the way it set up and students, themselves have responsibility for taking care of members. Thus if students had varied in grade, I dare assert that the ultimate goal of involving group is absent.
In addition, receiving same grade prevent students and teachers from having conflict. It means that for teachers, students are mostly like to argue and complain about their grade, and for students, they might feel that they have been betrayed by other members because most of time when students receive different grade, it occurred by complaining their behavior to teachers. As a following sequence, students will lose their faith on other students, and teachers will have hard time explaining why they gave different grade. Since it only cause bad situation, there is no reason to give different grade.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that receiving same grade is appropriate way to value group working because this is only way to maintain its purpose and one of the leading cause of conflict in school life. Yet, teachers should look for solution to prevent students from looseness because there is some students who abuse group project’s characteristic.