Group Projects When Nobody Else Turns Up · Course check

Course check

3 questions. Get them all right and the Fair Share seal is yours. Get one wrong and you can reread and try again — as many times as you like, and nothing is recorded against you.

1. What are the three structural causes of group failure?

   Undefined "done", unowned pieces, and no interim datesPersonality clashes, poor communication, and bad luckToo many members, too little time, unclear marking

2. What should the first meeting produce?

   A written note of what you are making, who owns what, and interim datesA first draft of the final documentAn agreement to meet every week

3. Why not quietly do a missing member's work?

   It breaches most academic regulationsIt teaches the group the deadline is soft and leaves you no evidenceIt always produces worse work