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Assessing Group Work
Kalina Peneva and Rumjana Belcheva
With all the advantages of group learning, at a certain point the teacher will inevitably face a serious question: How should students’ work in groups be assessed?
This question includes a whole set of sub-questions:
— How can group work in general be assessed?
— How should the group be graded if they worked well and completed the assignment, but some students did not contribute?
— What criteria should be used to assess the individual contributions of each student?
— How can assessment be made to serve as a stimulus for further improvement?
— How can the assessment process be made fair and objective?
This article describes our search for answers to all of these questions, in the context of our work with 8th-12th graders (aged 14-18) in Bulgarian Language and Literature courses. When we started to work on the assessment system three years ago, we realized that it had to include three major elements:
— assessment of the work of the entire group
— assessment of the work of individuals within the group, and
— self-assessment.
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Assessing Group Work