Reflecting upon and evaluating group work
The activities and templates in the table below focus on group monitoring and reflection, and evaluation of group work.
| Activity | Description |
|---|---|
| What's working and what's not | Review process for identifying group 'helpers' and 'hinderers' (Bingham & Daniels, 1998:46-47 |
| What's going wrong? | An activity for stopping and re-gathering when things aren't going so well in the group (Gibbs, 1998:42) |
| Group review | An after group review activity using questions and open ended sentences to facilitate reflection (Bingham & Daniels, 1998:53) |
| Inner/outer | Generating a list of insights about working in groups/teams (Snow, 1997:211) |
| Group work peer evaluation | Reflecting upon and evaluating peers (Bingham & Daniels, 1998:60 |
| Peer evaluation 1 | School of Business peer evaluation form (courtesy of Ian Black) |
| Peer evaluation 2 | Group assignment peer review form (courtesy of Nick Wailes) |
| How am I in teams? | A simple pre-team involvement self reflection activity (Gibbs, 1998:20) |
| Informal evaluation | A quick informal activity for evaluating Units of Study or group work |
| Student self and staff evaluation | An informal method of student self evaluation and student evaluation of lecturer/tutor |
| Group work evaluation | An evaluation form to monitor the progress of groups |
| Group feedback example | An example of feedback provided students in WORK 6112 (courtesy of Nick Wiles) |
| Offering and receiving feedback | Some ideas on offering and receiving feedback (courtesy of Tai Peseta) |