The impact of group selection on student performance and satisfaction
By Sakthi Mahenthiran, P. Rouse. International Journal of Educational Management, 2000
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Investigates whether the performance and attitudes of students could be improved by giving them some control over the group selection process. Groups were formed either by randomly combining paired friends or by randomly assigning all students. Students completed a group exercise and a group case. The dependent variables were the project grades and student satisfaction. Student satisfaction was measured using a questionnaire. The results show that attitudes of students were more positive when they were allowed to choose a single friend in the group. The project grades were significantly higher when students were paired, and this result was true regardless of their grade point averages. The interaction between group selection and grade point average is explained, and the paper concludes that the best group selection is to pair friends and then combine them to form groups with high ability rather than randomly assigning students to groups.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology
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- Can’t We Pick our Own Groups? The Influence of Group Selection Method on Group Dynamics and Outcomes (2006, background): “In another comparative study, Mahenthiran and Rouse (2000) found that satisfaction and grades related to group work increased when students were allowed to be in a group with a friend compared to groups that had been formed through random assignment.”