JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
Achieving Change in Students’ Attitudes Toward Group
Projects by Teaching Group Skills
Author(s): Lawrence O. Hamer, Robert D. O’Keefe
Citation: Lawrence O. Hamer, Robert D. O’Keefe, (2013) "Achieving Change in Students’ Attitudes Toward Group Projects by Teaching Group Skills," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol.13, Iss. 2, pp. 25 - 33
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
Despite the many positive benefits which can be derived from group assignments, faculty members
frequently report that students generally dislike being assigned to a group project. This paper reports a
quasi-experiment which presented students with information about the relevance and importance of
group skills during the time in which they were working on an assigned group project, and then measured
the students’ attitudes toward group projects. The reported study demonstrates that instructors can alter
students’ perceptions of group work by incorporating instruction about group skills into group
assignments.