Group Evaluation and Individual Evaluation of the article.

The Project

Group Evaluation

1.     What area of study did you choose?  Why?

We chose the extinction of animals, because we assigned to us. We chose to do our project on the extinction of Ivory Billed Woodpeckers, because we all agreed that they were unique animals and that they needed more exposure.

2.     What did your group hope to achieve?  What was your proposed outcome?

We hoped to aware people of the fact that they Ivory Billed Woodpeckers are facing extinction, by using the outcome of a newspaper article.

3.     How could you critically evaluate the success of your outcome?

We compared them to other newspaper articles to see that if we had all the necessary facts.

4.     What were your specific group roles and responsibilities?  How did you organize them?  Was the allocation effective?

We began our assignment by opening a Google document. Nabilah researched the web sites while citing them down. Raveena organized all information and Jasmine put the information into the essay. We all helped with editing the final outcome, so that all our opinions and ideas were included. The allocation was very effective, because we saved time by dividing the roles and it also helped us work together.

5.     Did your project have enough scope for every group member to play an active, full time part in the group work?  How could you improve this?

Yes, it did. We did a lot of research individually and also as a group, which is why we had a lot of efficiency while completing our daily agenda and we were ahead of most of the other groups. We could have improved by setting clearer roles for one another, because at certain times, all three of us were concentrating on the same thing.

6.    Was the workload manageable in the time frame?

Yes, it was. We managed to finish our newspaper article ahead of time, because we used our time wisely. We spent most of our time researching information to put into our article. The article itself did not take very long to write because we made important notes before. All we had to do was put them together and edit some areas.

7.     How effective were your minutes and agendas at keeping the task on focus?  How did they help you?  How could they improve them?

Our daily agenda was very effective because it pressures us to get a certain task done before the deadline. It also helped us use our time wisely to avoid delaying any aspects of our project. We could have improved by challenging ourselves more, instead of just sticking with mediocre since we were ahead of time.

  

Individual Evaluation

The Group Work 

What have I contributed to the group project?
- I have contributed my researching skills and my other job parts in helping my other team members with the whole outcome.
What would I do differently next time?  Why?
- I would have
What have I learnt about working together?
- that I can get work done efficiently if we work as a fully cooperated group with no one not doing anything or too lazy to do something.
What has been good/challenging about working as part of a group?
- I always have to keep track on what my other team members are doing so we’re on the same track and the same pace to get the work finished on time and in good quality.
  
What have I learnt doing the project?
 
What have I learnt about;
a) Deciding on and planning a project?
- that creating an agenda on a Google Doc is very useful in recording what you have done each time and to save time.
b) Planning and producing research?
- I have learnt that when I am on a certain website or any website I have to always check its reliability so that it’s not just randomly put there incase the information given is not true. And when I’m planning my research I have learnt to only take the important information so that the article won’t be a whole book of me writing about unimportant stuff.
c) Reading and presenting my ideas?
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d) time management?
- I have learnt that to manage my time properly, I have to divide the work between my group so that one of us is not left out doing nothing. I would also do how much I can in a lesson and if I haven’t finished I would do it as homework and not wait for the next lesson because that would definately waste time.
What would you do differently to develop these skills?
 
How did I approach my individual contribution?
I approached it well because I think I have succeeded in doing all of my parts as a team member
 
What are the most valuable points I have learnt?  Why?