Does assessed multicultural group work really pull UK students’ average down?
By Glauco De Vita. 2002
103 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Communication, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation
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In Communication
- Neil Harrison
- Simone E. Volet
- Arthur Sweeney
- Carmel Herington
- Nicola. Peacock
- Mark A. C. Summers
- Scott Weaven
- Bart Rienties
In Education
- Neil Harrison
- Simone E. Volet
- Arthur Sweeney
- Carmel Herington
- Nicola. Peacock
- Mark A. C. Summers
- Scott Weaven
- Sanna Järvelä
In Management of Technology and Innovation
- Arthur Sweeney
- Neil Harrison
- Carmel Herington
- Nicola. Peacock
- Mark A. C. Summers
- Simone E. Volet
- Scott Weaven
Citations in the corpus
- Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students’ perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home’ (2009, background): “[interview] De Vita (2002) concluded that multi-cultural groupwork does not negatively affect home students‟ marks.”
- Students’ attitudes towards culturally mixed groups on international campuses: impact of participation in diverse and non‐diverse groups (2008, background): “For example, in the context of tutor‐assigned, culturally mixed group work in a university setting, De Vita ( 2002 ) reported that assignments done in culturally mixed groups attained higher marks, on average, than the usual individual performances of both their local and international members.”
- Multicultural influences on group learning: a qualitative higher education study (2008, result): “Even though previous research has found to the contrary (De Vita 2002 ), most respondents suggested that they had unfavourable attitudes to group work due to perceived inequalities in grading procedures.”
- Investigating the impact of personality and early life experiences on intercultural interaction in internationalised universities (2012, background): “Ippolito (2007) reports that language barriers, cultural indifference and time pressures are barriers to successful multicultural groupwork, while Harrison and Peacock (2009) found that home students were anxious that working within multicultural groups could compromise their access to staff time an”