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From: anand@wotan.top.cis.syr.edu (Rangachari Anand)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Group projects
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.212148.15481@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 02:47:55 GMT
Reply-To: anand@top.cis.syr.edu (Rangachari Anand)
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It is end of the semester and I have been hearing a number of gripes
from students regarding group projects. As always, one enthusiastic
person in the group does 90% of the design and programming. Not
surprisingly, this leads to resentment on the part of the enthusiastic 
person: "Why should my work help these free-loaders get a good grade?".

While it is true that the intent of group projects is to prepare
students for the real world, the students are, it would seem, expected
to pick up the techniques of group interaction on their own. Is there any
book containing practical tips for solving this problem which I could 
recommend to my students?


R. Anand                | School of Computer and Information Science
anand@top.cis.syr.edu   | Syracuse University.