Asking questions randomly of individuals is one means of promoting this. To help the instructor to know the students' names, name tags can be worn. Individual examinations are a means to assess a student's mastery of the material. Students come to college with few cooperative experiences and thus frequently lack these skills. Group Processing involves an assessment by the participants of their group, what they did well and what they could do better the next time to improve the functioning of the group.
Feedback can be formal and informal.
Forms can be developed to give written feedback to the instructor on a given exercise. It is important to focus the student evaluation on the process of the group as opposed to the product. The expectation that one will have to summarize, explain and teach what one is learning impacts one's learning strategies. Higher level strategies are used. The discussion within cooperative learning situations promotes more frequent oral summarizing, explaining, and elaborating of what one knows.