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Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random?

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: Group work projects are increasingly used in higher education, but there is little guidance on how best to allocate students to groups. If groups can be engineered to contain compatible people, then the process of group work may be easier and more productive. The Honey and Mumford learning styles questionnaire provides a quick and easy way in which students might be classified into purportedly complementary categories. This paper discusses a comparison of the performance of student groups formed randomly, with those formed using the learning styles questionnaire. We found no significant differences in the performances of these two sets of groups, and we discuss some possible reasons for this.

Source: Innovations in Education and Training International

DOI: 10.1080/135580000362043

Authors: Mark Huxham, Ray Land

Language: English

Topic: Problem and Project Based Learning

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2076354890

FWCI: 5.881

Cites: 7

Cited by: 90

Related to: 10