Group work and assessment - ANU Learning and Teaching

Collaboration for learning and assessment design

Group work can encompass some of the greatest highs and lows of teaching and the student experience.

Throughout this resource, you will find evidence-based guidance and practical tips alongside prompts to help you to reflect on your context and personal teaching practice.

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Why use group work?

Explore the benefits of group work for students and graduates.

Designing group projects

Advice on how to design and assess group projects while balancing individual and group work.

Setting the scene for group work

Highlighting the value of group work from concept to supporting students through their first meeting.

Allocating groups

Showing the value and purpose of group work. Plus the most effective ways to allocate students to groups.

Ongoing student support

Polls, feedback, progress reports and other resources to help check in with groups throughout semester.

Managing conflict

Suggestions on deciding whether conflict is functional or dysfunctional and how and when to intervene.

Special considerations

Common scenarios and suggestions when designing for first year cohorts and transdisciplinary courses.

Group work in action

Events, blogs and resources exploring group work.

Using the Bite-sized active learning collection

How to navigate the collections to find the right active learning activities to improve student engagement.

Evaluating & Creating activities

Activities in under 30 minutes to help students assess and make decisions about content to create something new.

Unlocking the power of group assessment

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the emphasis on collaborative learning experiences continues to gain momentum.

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Benefits of English conversation groups to English as a Second Language students

Let’s Speak English (LSE) is a semester-based program offered by ANU Library Academic Skills where international and English as a Second Language (ESL) students can practice English conversation.

5 reasons to use active learning

2. It provides safe opportunities for failure and feedback Activities built around problems, scenarios, case studies and big questions lend themselves to active learning. Particularly if these activities are formative (i.e. not graded), they create a safe space to try, fail and learn through feedback. This feedback could be via peers, educators, or automated feedback […]

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Making friends with science: A case study of group work in a first-year course

As research shows that social skills are regarded higher than content-related skills when it comes to employability, conveners are increasingly using group work as an assessment tool to equip their students for life beyond their degree.

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