ERIC Number: EJ764292
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jun
Pages: 15
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Group Assessments: Dilemmas Facing Lecturers in Multicultural Tertiary Classrooms
Strauss, Pat; U, Alice
Higher Education Research and Development, v26 n2 p147-161 Jun 2007
"Group is good, and group is good for curing all social ills" was the cynical observation of one of the lecturers in this study. Her comment reflects the uneasiness of lecturers at tertiary institutions with the notion that the educational advantages of group assessments far outweigh the disadvantages, and that such an approach promotes the integration of minority groups in multicultural universities. The dilemmas facing lecturers in multicultural tertiary classrooms are reflected on in this paper, when they adopt group assessment as a means of evaluation and highlight those challenges that often jeopardize the successful implementation of this type of practice.
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Student Evaluation, Cooperative Learning, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism, Evaluation Problems, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, College Students, Teacher Surveys, Classroom Research, Teaching Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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