September 15, 2020A Complicated and Qualified Recommendation for Creating Groupsby David BuckAs a warning, I’m going to talk about methods again for part of this post because I can’t seem to help myself, but I will actually make a recommendation by the end, so there is a payoff if you bear…
September 4, 2020Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignmentby David BuckWith any group assignment, there are a number of decisions that need to be made before introducing the assignment to students. Some of those decisions have to do with features of the assignment (e.g., what will you assess and when…
August 6, 2020Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?by David BuckAre group assignments effective pedagogy or a waste of time? This is the question asked by researcher Michael Thom (2020) in his recent paper examining the scholarship on collaborative pedagogy. To be clear, I’m being literal here. The title of…