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Some practical issues when assessing group performances in a cooperative learning model
Dr Tony Sahama
Senior Lecturer | School of Information Systems| Faculty of Information Technology
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Tony Sahama is a senior lecturer within the School of Information Systems. His primary research interest is the area of Medical Informatics, Bioinformatics and Information Retrieval. He also specialises in the learning and teaching domain, in particular discovery learning and cooperative learning design.
Tony’s interests include:
- developing a method of providing instant feedback on students’ responses to programming in examinations
- designing and defining assessment portfolios for students in cooperative learning environments
- experimenting with the wider integration of technology into learning and teaching
- engaging in a large learning and teaching collaborative project between three faculties.
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Project Summary
Cooperative learning environments are often viewed by students as too time consuming, leading to products that may be incomplete and/or difficult to authenticate and assess in terms of each team members’ contribution.
This study focuses on the key practical issues that may arise from the design and management of team assessment. It takes account of how cross-cultural awareness affects team performance.
It is anticipated that the outcome of this study will provide tools and methodology for meaningful evaluation of a students’ ability to support the work of their team, for example a criteria sheet that describes team processes across five standards. This is a domain with specific challenges and one that would be beneficial to Information Technology Education.
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