Group evaluations are implemented at various educational levels to improve student academic performance. They invoke peer pressure that encourages equal participation and accountability from individual students. This includes preparation and collaboration to complete evaluations. Group evaluations also enable cross-learning, teaching, and mentoring among students. Research shows that working in groups allows students to combine resources, specialize tasks, and build motivation, leading to better performance than individuals working alone. Group evaluations boost student confidence by providing peer encouragement and support, which increases understanding of course concepts. Studies found that students perceive peer-led groups as more efficient than individual work.
Group evaluations are implemented at various educational levels to improve student academic performance. They invoke peer pressure that encourages equal participation and accountability from individual students. This includes preparation and collaboration to complete evaluations. Group evaluations also enable cross-learning, teaching, and mentoring among students. Research shows that working in groups allows students to combine resources, specialize tasks, and build motivation, leading to better performance than individuals working alone. Group evaluations boost student confidence by providing peer encouragement and support, which increases understanding of course concepts. Studies found that students perceive peer-led groups as more efficient than individual work.
Group evaluations are implemented at various educational levels to improve student academic performance. They invoke peer pressure that encourages equal participation and accountability from individual students. This includes preparation and collaboration to complete evaluations. Group evaluations also enable cross-learning, teaching, and mentoring among students. Research shows that working in groups allows students to combine resources, specialize tasks, and build motivation, leading to better performance than individuals working alone. Group evaluations boost student confidence by providing peer encouragement and support, which increases understanding of course concepts. Studies found that students perceive peer-led groups as more efficient than individual work.
Group Evaluations, are implemented at all levels of
Education. From kindergarten to Graduate work, they are improving academic performances of students at any level. Group evaluations invoke peer pressure from others in the group that make the individual student participate equally and with accountability. This will include accountability in preparation for the evaluation as well as working together to actually completing it. Along with the division of labor, group evaluations create the potential for cross learning, teaching and mentoring (Stelzer, 2010).
Stelzer says, the power of the team comes from
the potential to combine resources, specialize and divide the work, and build motivating camaraderie. As a result, teams will perform better than the individual members of the team acting alone (Stelzer, 2010). Along with helping their peers understand and learn course material, the group will encourage each other, which builds each students confidence in themselves. One study found that this increase in confidence seemed to lead to an increase in understanding of the concepts being measured (Nebesniak, 2010). Another study found that students perceived the peer-led groups to be more efficient than individual work (West, 2013).
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Who It Helps
Research has shown
that group evaluations and cooperative learning groups have a positive impact on all students in any classroom. Students with mild to moderate learning disabilities, as well as students with ADHD, greatly benefit from group evaluations. The students trust that their peers will help them if they do not understand. This trust creates a confidence booster which helps many students with lower ability levels to engage and actively participate in the evaluation. The group will also benefit those students who struggle with starting assignments by giving positive feedback and suggestions on where to begin.
How to Use Group Evaluations
Procedures
Students will interact simultaneously in a group with positive interdependence and
equal participation in order to complete an exam of some kind. Nebesniaks study suggests developing guidelines for what a good cooperative team member does and does not do before hand to define what equal participations means and facilitate accountability. Implementation of group evaluations is simple. The teacher will pair students up to complete a test together. Group members should be chosen by coordinating a balance between each students strengths and weaknesses in the tested material. Students will discuss material with each other, help one another understand it, and make informed unanimous decisions about the answer choice.
RESOURCES
Nebesniak, A. L., & Heaton, R. M. (2010). Student Confidence & Student
Involvement. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 16(2), 96-103. Stelzer, L., & Coll-Reilly, J. (2010). Collaborative Team Testing to Support Individual Learning: Can Teamwork Motivate Learning? Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) CIER, 3(12), 7-16. West, R. E., Williams, G. S., & Williams, D. D. (2013). Improving Problembased Learning in Creative Communities Through Effective Group Evaluation. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 7(2).