Group assessment

As class sizes increase, group assessment is becoming increasingly familiar, and for many course organisers presents an interesting option.

The University of Melbourne provides a good overview of the topic which asks the following questions:

• What is being assessed - Product, Process or both?
• Who is the assessor - lecturer, student or both?
• Who gets the marks - individuals or groups?

You can read more in their full 'assessing group work’ guide:

Sharing out the marks

The main difficulty with assessing groupwork is often whether and how to allocate marks to individual students in the group.

Maiden and Perry present a range of approaches which can be used. Their paper is supplemented with practical case studies including the detailed guidance and information provided to group members.