The Effect of Group Projects on Content-Related Learning

By D. Bacon. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Multicultural influences on group learning: a qualitative higher education study (2008, background): “Indeed, the presence of these factors may result in group learning being less effective than individual learning (Bacon 2005).”
Assessing Teamwork Skills for Assurance of Learning Using CATME Team Tools (2014, background): “Individual accountability is necessary for proper implementation of team-based learning methods, but it is frequently missing in business school group projects, which can reduce student learning (Bacon, 2005).”
How Fast Do Students Forget What They Learn in Consumer Behavior? A Longitudinal Study (2006, methodology): “A discussion of the potential for Rasch measurement in marketing can be found in Ewing, Salzberger, and Sinkovics (2005), and Bacon (2005) offered an example of its application in business education.”
The problem of free-riding in group projects: Looking beyond social loafing as reason for non-contribution (2013, background): “projects may have an adverse effect on their intended outcomes as research has shown that freeriding not only negatively affects students’ enjoyment of study but also their ability to learn content-related information (Bacon, 2005).”
Unfolding collaborative learning assessment literacy: a reflection on current assessment methods in higher education (2020, background): “That is, group assessment might elicit behaviour such as free-riding and adopting a performance-oriented approach, which in turn might lead to, for example, unequal division of tasks, unequal contributions, and unequal responsibilities for the group assignment (Pitt 2000; Macdonald 2003; Knight 2004”