Making Groups Work: University Students‘ Perceptions

Group work is believed to be the best way to develop competences which will allow us, as students, to confront work problem-solving situations as professionals in the future. Not only that, but it is highly believed that working in groups increases the changes for students to learn trough peer interaction.

This oral presentation goes further into the subject by analyzing the academic paper “Making Groups Work: University Students Perceptions”.

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Reflection

Reading the paper and knowing what the students’ perceptions are, I cannot help to wonder if those results could be applied to Chileans students. What I have seen in this research is that, above all Australian students think that collaborative work is a positive experience because they actually work evenly as a group. This requires student’s commitment, autonomy and responsibility. Based on my own experience as a university student, I do not think that is our case; basically because in our educational system group work is based upon the belief that students must be trained to work with random people, which we may or may not like to work with, instead of focusing on the premise that in order to have a well constituted group one should elect the people whose abilities or skills will be enhanced by the other members.

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