Opinion might vary regarding whether all group members should get the same grade for their effort in a group project. Personally, I disagree with above statement for the following reasons. First, it is unfair for students who participate a group project to gain same grades. Second, getting grades according to individual’s contribution make people to participate positivity.
Above all, it is unreasonable to get same grades just because student participate the same project. Nowdays, society require people to have collaboration of organization and thus team project assignment in high school and university is increasing. Although students do the same project together, each student’s effort is different. Some students invest many time for great project outcome while other students spend less time doing project. Take my case as an example. When I was a junior in a college, I participated in a group work. The number of members is five. One of the students in these members is very busy due to club activities. This student does not attend meeting and does not does not hand in report which is assign to an individual. However, because assignment is group project, all members get same grades. So, students who participate the project enthusiastically became angry. Therefore, getting same grades in a project is very unfair.
Besides, getting grades according to individual’s contribution make people to participate hard. If students receive marks according to their ability , all students will participate very enthusiastically. Take my case as an example. The professor Chung who teaches ‘social problem’ assign team project and require students to note contribution and role of each member on a paper by means of percent. All members of this project carry out the assignment hard because their contribution is evaluated lower. For these reasons, members participate harder the assignment and we can get A+. As illustrated above, getting vary mark follows by one’s contribution not only improve outcome of project just make students to participate enthusiastically.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that all group members should not get same grade for their effort. First, it is unfair to get same grades regardless of students’ different contribution. Second, getting grades by individual’s contribution make people to participate positivity. Therefore, it is quite obvious that grades in team project should be score according to students’ contribution.
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