In a post-secondary education likewise university and college, students are often given group assignments which account for a particular percentage in their coursework marks. Group assignment is a task given to a group of members who shares equal responsibilities to complete and submit it on or before the deadline stated to their respective tutor or lecturer. However, a group assignment tends to become an individual assignment some of the time when the group mates within the group are just count on and rely on the leader of the group, who is known as the most proficient student in the group. This kind of members are so call “sleeping members” and they are the result of three main causes of this phenomenon that will be presented in this essay.
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After the distribution of tasks to each and every members, the leader who just let them work independently on the specific task will increase the risk for facing the problem of “sleeping members”. Because some of the members will tend to forget about their tasks until the last minute when the leader question them. At this moment, they will just simply complete their tasks by copy and paste from the internet or sample assignment and then hand in to the leader for checking and organising purpose. In short, leader who does not monitor their members’ performance regularly will certainly give rise to the phenomenon of “sleeping members”.
The fact that the members who do not care about their coursework marks will probably contribute to the phenomenon of “sleeping members”. Generally, they will not present at any group meeting and discussion by telling various inappropriate reasons. Although they know what the tasks they need to complete, they will never work for it. At the end, the group leader and other members will have to do their tasks for them.
As a summary, the high school students should be aware of these three possible causes of “sleeping members” to avoid being in the same group with this kind of members for any group assignments. If they do so, they should identify these sleeping members within the group in order to report the case to respective tutor or lecturer for disciplinary action to be taken to those sleeping
After the distribution of tasks to each and every members, the leader who just let them work independently on the specific task will increase the risk for facing the problem of “sleeping members”. Because some of the members will tend to forget about their tasks until the last minute when the leader question them. At this moment, they will just simply complete their tasks by copy and paste from the internet or sample assignment and then hand in to the leader for checking and organising purpose. In short, leader who does not monitor their members’ performance regularly will certainly give rise to the phenomenon of “sleeping members”.
The fact that the members who do not care about their coursework marks will probably contribute to the phenomenon of “sleeping members”. Generally, they will not present at any group meeting and discussion by telling various inappropriate reasons. Although they know what the tasks they need to complete, they will never work for it. At the end, the group leader and other members will have to do their tasks for them.
As a summary, the high school students should be aware of these three possible causes of “sleeping members” to avoid being in the same group with this kind of members for any group assignments. If they do so, they should identify these sleeping members within the group in order to report the case to respective tutor or lecturer for disciplinary action to be taken to those sleeping