Group projects can feel pointless when some do all the work and others barely show up, which is why students should be graded individually.

The people who work and study the most are usually the ones who don’t like group projects. It’s very common for everyone to expect one person to do everything. But one student decided to spice things ...

In the working world, most successful ventures are group projects. No car is manufactured by a single person, no airplane is built and flown by one person, and no surgery is performed by a single ...

If you were the "gifted kid" tasked with all the work in a collaborative classroom, or a little perfectionist as a child worried about making sure everything with your name on it was amazing, chances ...

Dear Reader: If you’re working on a group project, how can you ensure you’re not doing all of the work? Ah, it’s a common conundrum. In an ideal world, you’ll collaborate with colleagues and crush the ...

Group work can be as polarizing as candy corn: there are those who love it and those who despise it. Those who love group work see it as a perfect opportunity to be lazy and exploit the other ...

A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...

Group projects are probably the only academic rite of passage where students actually emerge having lost brain cells. They ...