Rather than simply summarizing the papers, or posing questions about them, comments should be used to express opinions, draw linkages, or develop new ideas. Second, students should attend each class session prepared to discuss the assigned papers and the e-mailed comments that were made about them. Both the quantity and the quality of students' contributions to these discussions will be evaluated. The purpose of this presentation is to examine a specific example of new research in that topic area. The research proposal offers each student a chance to consider how an interesting and important aspect of small groups might be investigated.
Proposals can involve all types of groups and any group phenomena.
However, they should describe projects that are feasible, given the resources available to a typical graduate student during an ordinary school year. Proposals will also be evaluated for such qualities as clarity, scholarship, and creativity. The ways and means of studying group process. The study of group behavior during four decades. The compositional dynamics of organizational groups.