Are you considering using a group project in your course? Have you used them before but feel that there’s room for improvement? Wondering how to address a challenge you or your students face?
In this resource, you’ll find effective, research-based practices and resources to help you create, support, and assess group projects in your class, whether they are online, face to face, or hybrid. For the purpose of this resource, we define group projects as a graded assignment or assessment that requires students to work together over multiple class sessions.
This resource is organized by the following questions. Each section offers information about effective practices and explores additional resources that have been selected to help you create, support, and assess effective group projects in your classes.
- Why use group projects in your class?
- What are the characteristics of a successful group project?
- How can you introduce a group project to your students to get maximum buy in?
- How can you form effective groups?
- How can you assess a group project?
- How can you support students during the project process?
- How can you wrap up a group project?
As you create or redesign a group project, review the guidance in Access and Accommodations in Group Projects.