The BilBea Learning Journey

• When members can’t take constructive criticisms of their work and see it as criticisms of themselves.
• When members aren’t as enthused as each other (including myself) about the piece.
• When members make judgments about other members based on age, gender, race or any other factor, and frame their interactions according to those judgments. Of course, especially when it’s not in a good or helpful way such as putting someone down or rejecting ideas, effort or work based on these judgments.
• Personality clashes - especially when participation is mandatory or otherwise forced due to assessment requirements.
• When the process of contributing or assessing is not structured well-enough to allow for input and criticism without hard feelings. This is an extremely difficult thing to “structure”!

Through this reflection and other good and bad experiences in groups - I don’t think I’ll be assessing in groups ever again. Sure collaboration and sharing in groups, but no piece of assessment of mine will assess group work unless somehow there is an individual mark able to be given - that is clear delineation of work contributed freeing members to contribute as they see fit.