Using Personality Assessments to Build Better Groups
When students learn there will be group work in a course, they often let up a collective groan.
Wren Mills, PhD
October 4, 2024
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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work
In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of
David N.C. Hull, Nicole Grewling, Katherine S. Maynard, and Martín Ponti
August 28, 2023
Taking Collaboration Seriously
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 17, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Like many professors, I use group projects in my
Oliver Dreon, PhD
May 27, 2022
From Team Charters to Reflections: Six Steps for a Successful Group Project
I teach a business writing course, and I used to dread assigning group projects. While I valued the lessons teamwork provided, those takeaways were often
Elizabeth Dunham, MLS
January 17, 2022
Teaching with Care: Why Community is at the Heart of Successful Pedagogy
Checking on whether my students in a recent class were understanding some thorny content, I did a quick survey and was heartened to receive engaged
Juli S. Charkes and Mitch Fried
July 30, 2021
Another Way to Form Groups for the Active Learning Class
There is abundant evidence that having students work in groups improves educational outcomes (R. E. Slavin, 1987; Springer, Donovan, and Stanne, 1999; R. Slavin, 1996;
Forrest Cooper, DAOM
July 2, 2021
Part One of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Early Week Classroom Activities
With PhD in hand, I joined the academy without any real teaching training. As I sought to establish my teaching routine and define my teaching
Justin Robertson, PhD
November 16, 2020
What! No Textbook?
The approach to course reading described here is not the result of some altruistic action to save students money on textbooks. Nor was it a
Ed Cunliff, PhD
August 7, 2019
Rights and Responsibilities for Group Members
I recently revisited something I’ve always considered a great resource. It originally appeared in a 1992 issue of the Teaching Professor and was published then
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
June 28, 2019
Students Riding on Coattails during Group Work? Five Simple Ideas to Try
The idea for sharing this post came from a session I recently conducted at the annual teaching conference organized by my university. A pedagogical conundrum was raised by a colleague whose enthusiasm and question stayed with me and inspired me to write this post. The question posed by this colleague is relevant to all instructors who have ever used group work to assess their students: How should one deal with the issues that arise when members of a group are not picking up their share of the responsibilities during a group work project?
Li-Shih Huang, PhD
September 20, 2018
