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If you ever want to ruin your best friendship, destroy the trust, and flush everything you cherished in human connection down the drain, I’ve got a tip for you. Why don’t you try a group project together?
Formerly known as a killer assassin to both the project and the group, it’s still the holy grail of schools, universities, and any education institutions that promise you a cool diploma and a nice job, in turn making your mom proud.
And trust me, people who have survived a group project once are no way doing it twice. So let’s take a look at what it is about these seemingly innocent gatherings meant to do good and only good that make them the most hateable assignments. From being the only cast member in the tearful PowerPoint film to switching groups halfway like a track and field athlete, these are some of the examples that have terrorized generation after generation.
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Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
Some people were being bossy and didn’t listen to other people. They were gonna suggest y’all just shoot him.
It’s no secret that few things about education irk people as much as group projects do.
In reality, the idea of a group project is really meant to do good—to teach kids and college students responsibility for themselves and their actions. Plus, this model of cooperation is supposed to promote teamwork, but often does the opposite.
In fact, a study by the University of Oklahoma showed that the design of group papers “encourages social loafing, limits group cohesiveness [...] and increases student stress,” reports Psychology Today.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Honestly, being terrible at group projects seems to be a culturally specific thing. My Russian students do group projects all the time. All the group members do their bit ( you can tell cause sometimes they don't make the font the same) and when I give them a choice they chose to work in groups.
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ognistykamyk 4 years ago
"First of all I just want you to know I have o boyfriend. Remember I have a boyfriend. It's important having boyfriend"
There are a number of reasons why group projects may be inherently flawed. Eberly Center at Carnegie Mellon University suggests that it may have to do with “students not understanding teachers’ expectations,” “students having very different knowledge and skills,” “group composition being problematic,” and “grading scheme not promoting meaningful teamwork.”
Meanwhile, in “group work,” the learning focus is on a content-based objective, but the Redesigning High School initiative suggests that such an approach is destined to fail. “If we want students to learn to collaborate, we need to put them in a situation where they NEED to collaborate.”
As a result, the initiative believes that in order for a group project model to work, students have to be given “big, complex, open-ended problems to solve.”
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nanashi 4 years ago
the worst person to be in a group project for me was that girl back in uni who turns up at every meeting, but doing nothing to contribute. not talking, not paying attention. nothing. just silently listening and/or staring at her phone. we tried to get her to participate but it didn't get us anywhere. then at the end presentation we were to list out the tasks each member did and we purposely listed nothing for her. she was pissed at how our professor pointed that out, crying that it's not fair; she went to every meet-up. yeah, that's all you do. you WERE there but at the same time you WERE NOT.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
One group project, the three jocks who grabbed me for their group sat around and laughed about how they'd get an A now. I got an A. They got a D. The work was B-minus. Teacher told the angry jocks he split the difference of the real grade between the four of us.
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Patrick James 4 years ago
Umm, he's not getting an A. He has the historically lowest approval rating ever at this point in a presidency
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Clara Knaub 4 years ago
😂 😂 😂 that poor person. In my groups we usually don’t have problems like these. We are allowed t pick our partners and we always pick ones that we get along with. Then we assign roles and everybody does their part.
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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago
We had a team member who contributed nothing, advised the professor. Unfortunately she was the flirty type and the loafer who never showed up was a good looking guy. She accused me and the rest our the team, all girls, of scapegoating.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Oh dear I pictured something completely different to a scooter.
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Theron Roberts 4 years ago
i don't get why people have to act like they're better than everybody else just because they searched up "iq test" on google and got a high score on the first link they clicked.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
If you'v ehit the point of group projects, it's past the drop period, isn't it?
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nanashi 4 years ago
I really wish group text was a thing when I was in uni. it saved a lot of stupid time I wasted on going to every one of their dorms, knocking on their door, to ask how's it going with the project, only to be met with those incompetents somehow to have forgotten all about it.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Is that something mouldy? EDIT: NVM I just realised it is a nugget of weed lol.
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E Menendez 4 years ago
I am not sure why if someone legitimately had an emergency that makes them a bad partner. They did let them know. The person did leave the country and isn't sure they will be back, so...
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nanashi 4 years ago
what even is the point of group project except to face with the reality that a lot of people are just very incompetent as a team member? "learn to work together" ffs. all I learned was that I hate working with other people.
Liam Walsh 4 years ago
You can end up with these scenarios in work. I had an important project to work on and complete for presentation at a conference and I had to chase my colleague constantly. She did nothing. Wouldn't even meet when we were all at the conference centre so I could share the work I had done. I did everything and she stood silently next to me at the presentation. The stress she caused me... 🤬
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Retaliation. If you're still in high school, it can be very brutal.
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Shelp 4 years ago
Recently, I had to do a group project with other students. One of them did not participate at all, did not answer his phone, did not text back, did not do anything. We ended up reporting him to the professor, who then told us that they had had him in their sights for a long time, and that if he wasn't even able to work on the group projects, it was a real problem. He had to have a talk with a more powerful teacher about his future in this university, we did the presentation without him, and it was very satisfying.
nanashi 4 years ago
what even is the point of group project except to face with the reality that a lot of people are just very incompetent as a team member? "learn to work together" ffs. all I learned was that I hate working with other people.
Liam Walsh 4 years ago
You can end up with these scenarios in work. I had an important project to work on and complete for presentation at a conference and I had to chase my colleague constantly. She did nothing. Wouldn't even meet when we were all at the conference centre so I could share the work I had done. I did everything and she stood silently next to me at the presentation. The stress she caused me... 🤬
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Retaliation. If you're still in high school, it can be very brutal.
Load More Replies... Shelp 4 years ago
Recently, I had to do a group project with other students. One of them did not participate at all, did not answer his phone, did not text back, did not do anything. We ended up reporting him to the professor, who then told us that they had had him in their sights for a long time, and that if he wasn't even able to work on the group projects, it was a real problem. He had to have a talk with a more powerful teacher about his future in this university, we did the presentation without him, and it was very satisfying.
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