These methods bring benefits and drawbacks. The biggest perceived problem with student groups is often assessment. It will offer approaches and techniques for the assessment of group work by students. Some benefits of group work Students can develop skills of collaboration and team-working, skills which are valuable in most walks of academic, professional and personal life. Group work can allow students to undertake a greater variety of assignments than methods which keep the whole class working closely together.
Group work can allow students greater say in what tasks they do.
Students get to know each other, and form working relationships which have benefits beyond the particular group assignment work. Work done in groups can be more real than work done by a large class, with real clients, real briefs, real problems, perhaps even real resources. Some drawbacks of group work Group projects can fail, sometimes spectacularly, to achieve their goals, and even damage working relationships, in the short term at least. Students' initial ability to undertake group work varies widely. Group work can disadvantage members of some ethnic or other minorities.