Abstract:

Group-work plays a significant part in undergraduate courses while working effectively as a member of group is one of the most important common (generic) skills that students need to gain at university in preparation for their future working lives [1]. In this paper the challenges presented by the extrinsic factors that impact on the success of group-based assignments are considered against the background of formal summative assessment of group-based assignments on undergraduate courses in the Department of Computing at Canterbury Christ Church University located in the United Kingdom.

Keywords:

group-work, assessment, fairness, coursework, self-assessment, peer-assessment.