Group Work Observation

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In high school, we were constantly being told that we could not work in groups because we would get too loud. In university group work was encouraged so that our professors wouldn't have to do as much marking. During my observations at my CSL there was a lot of group work. Comparing when the students were working on group work to their individual work, the results were polar opposites. The tasks for students was to write down what they knew about 5 sided figures. When working individually, many students took minutes to get started because they needed to think about what they were supposed to do. Many students wrote 2 to 3 ideas and then stopped thinking they had written down as much as they could. Some students came up with many properties

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