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Students dealing with students

December 2, 2011 by John

Sociological Images’ link to the graphic below from Endless Origami reminded me of a thought I had the other day when I overheard students discussing group projects: students don’t like group projects because group projects force them to deal with other students.  They often seem content to do things in a half-assed way when dealing with their professors, but they do not care for others doing things in a half-assed way when dealing with them.  If only they would learn something from the experience…

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Posted in Teaching Tricks | Tagged Collaboration, Communication, Endless Origami, Group Projects, Half-Assed Students, Memoirs of a SLACer, Responsibility, Sociological Images, Teamwork, Trust No One | 1 Comment

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  1. on May 7, 2013 at 8:48 pm Some insight into student evaluations | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] was not the 4/5 (some students rated their group members much lower than this – after all, nobody wants to deal with students!) – but that some students assigned 4/5 in these categories to both their group members and […]



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