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Working with groups

Working with groups

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Group work can be the source of considerable angst for students if they perceive they are being let down by their teammates. SPARKPLUS – SPARKPLUS is a web-based self and peer assessment kit. It enables students to confidentially rate their own and their peers’ contributions to a team task or individual submissions and improve their judgment through benchmarking exercises. The WebPA project (a peer assessment tool developed at the Centre for Engineering and Design Education at Loughborough) attempts to address this inequity by…

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Engaging students in large classes

Engaging students in large classes

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Engaging students in large classes requires a few different skills to engaging with smaller, more intimate groups. Here Deborah Ball, from the Centre for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, discusses how she works with a large face-to-face class. No technology (although that certainly could be incorporated, through such applications as Socrative or GoSoapBox)…just active engagement.