I’m sure that was your end goal, but when someone assigns a collaborative project, it’s usually to teach students how to collaborate, while forgetting that just forcing a group to do the same task together is not the same thing as collaborating.
It is from this base that problems emerge, IMO.
Kind of like “synergy”, which is a real thing, but hard to define and difficult to artificially achieve.
At least in my school the end goal was never collaboration but getting a good grade. Thus individuals who cared did most if not all work.
Those group projects had sense only if you were paired with equally skilled and motivated ppl.
And ofcourse you had to LIKE them. Its exteremely hard to be cooperative with ppl you consider as assholes.
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