Download or read book Assessing Group Work in Media and Communication written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of a project, Assessing Group Work in Media and Communication, that addressed a tension that frequently arises in university teaching of Media and Communication in Australian universities: the need for collaborative group work on the one hand, and negative student attitudes to group assessment on the other. Such negative attitudes stem generally from the perception that group assessment does not reflect individual contributions and may compromise the best studentsâ chance of receiving a fair mark. Collaborative work is, however, both an essential ingredient of the learning process, and a vital attribute of subsequent professional work in these and other disciplines following graduation. Group work and group assessment are open to many design approaches and strategies, but this diversity may not be readily apparent to those without the time or resources to look for it. This projectâs central goal was to construct a sophisticated but useable resource for a broad range of academics in these and related disciplines, through which they might be able to discover and adapt new and contextually appropriate strategies and approaches to group assessment. [Executive summary, ed]