Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The different opinion concerning the effectiveness of group assignment for students exists. Some would say it needs a lot of effort as a wasteful process. However, in my opinion, I believe that collaboration would be pedagogically better for students for the following two subsequent reasons.
To begin with, the allotment to each person allows students to save a lot of time so that they can efficiently study efficiently. After one's divided part is done, group members share and make it together, reducing a the total effort of the whole process. In contrast to the work, if someone prepares his/her assignment alone, he/she have to do everything comprehensively, which seems to be time-consuming. For this reason, many educational institutions encourage teachers or professors to make their students do a team-play, instead of solo work. For example, there was a survey conducted by Tom Rath, the director of Gallup Organization, with 300 students as participants, The purpose of the survey was to understand the effectiveness of group assignment. One group studied alone, and another group did a group learning with members. At the end of the result, the majority of them reacted that students who were belonged to the latter group got a better grade compared with the students who were in the formal group. This is because the group assignment allowed them to save their time, which in turn gave enough time to discuss. Given this experiment, group activity is more effective than studying alone.
Furthermore, the value of cooperative spirit can unintentionally be taught learn while students engage in group work. Even though studying alone also develop a responsibility, group assignment can enhance both the responsibility which is personally assigned and the cooperation. In today's fiercely competitive world, many conglomerates incline to hire a person with cooperative spirit. Accordingly, students should learn about the value of team play. For instance, when I was a college student, I participated in a team project. During the assignment, members interacted together to make better performance and cooperated harmoniously. It was a great opportunity to obtain a way to be cooperative since I was familiar with studying alone untill entering a university. If I had not participated in this group assignment, I would not have not fully understood the meaning of cooperation.
In a nutshell, although there are many reasons to be considered, it seems reasonable to claim that working together is better for students than learning alone. This is because it can save a lot of time and give an opportunity to learn about collaboration.
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