The BilBea Learning Journey

See… I’m all for cooperative, collaborative learning and love sharing ideas, having meetings and generally have a good time whilst learning in a group. In fact, I love it. Where it gets my back up is having my grades rely on other people’s effort. I can name very few people that have as strong a drive to learn and do well in this degree, or merely the time to dedicate to it, as myself. This is not trying to say I’m perfect, merely dedicated to my learning path. I try my best and hardest which means dropping other pleasurable endeavours for a while.

Now in others’ defense, some have family commitments, others have time-consuming jobs… but that’s my point. Why should my grades be affected by other people’s commitments and lives. These aren’t my problems and shouldn’t be.

I could be sitting here with the opposite effect – full-time mum with 3-4 kids and full-time work. I would still try my best, but there’s just not enough time. Why should another group member with more time do all the work and I get a good grade from their effort.

Now groupwork is fantastic and I love it (like I said before), but it should be restricted to formative assessment (not for grades) and not venture into summative assessment land.