Article
Achieving Change in Students' Attitudes Toward Group Projects by Teaching Group Skills
Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
(2013)
Abstract
Despite the many positive benefits which can be derived from group assignments, faculty members frequently report that students generally dislike being assigned to a group project. This paper reports a quasi-experiment which presented students with information about the relevance and importance of group skills during the time in which they were working on an assigned group project, and then measured the students' attitudes toward group projects. The reported study demonstrates that instructors can alter students' perceptions of group work by incorporating instruction about group skills into group assignments.
Keywords
- design,
- marketing,
- behavior,
- learning
Disciplines
Publication Date
May, 2013
Citation Information
Lawrence O. Hamer and Robert D. O'Keefe. "Achieving Change in Students' Attitudes Toward Group Projects by Teaching Group Skills" Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice Vol. 13 Iss. 2 (2013) p. 25 - 33 ISSN: 2158-3595 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lawrence_hamer/10/