Effective Strategies for Evaluating Group Problem Solving Events

in putting into action the strategies and tactics of group problem solving as we're talking about them using

communication to solve a problem we're doing two actions in this class one we're actually having you do a gps event

and the second we're actually going to have you write a paper in which you evaluate

another group's gps event and that is what's going on here and i want to talk about how to write this

what you're going to be given here is a url for another group from last summer doing their gps event so i'm going to

have you watch that and i'm going to give you instructions here

about taking notes in writing the paper so

this should give you enough if you don't understand something about this please let me know

first obvious thing you've already done would be to take good notes on the group gps event and you first of all have your

rating sheet itself with the rubric and try to mark as many of these as you can especially mop

map i mean did they follow the steps or not if they didn't if they missed steps

then put fair or poor mark that and then it's many of the manage

message messages that you can do either task or bond and keep in mind you're doing

overall ratings of the group now

just an instruction as you're doing this remember that the basic paper is going to involve you

defending or explaining every mark you make on this rubric sheet

so don't mark something that you can't explain or defend so you have this rubric sheet and then

the blank areas where you take general notes about things that you noticed about their maximum moral participation

what happened with them mapping out and following the steps how they did a manager task a manager bond that kind of

thing and as i said i hope you took very very good notes because you're going to write your paper

based on this so you have your notes and then you need to work on writing the

paper itself so again the primary idea here is that you're supposed to explain the rating

mark to man in the rubric and make sure you include that rubric with the paper itself

as you're writing this paper up keep in mind the following first of all be thorough and clear

so cover everything and make sure you very clearly indicate how you

believe that they did well or not so well on this point

and then make sure you provide definitions of key concepts that's one place you can maybe add some space to

your paper if you cite a term then make sure you define that term so for instance if you use keep the phrase

keep on track explain what that means any of those message types you use the phrase

define terms and parameters explain what that means definitions of all key concepts are

really important to do and then when you start evaluating balance the positive and negative okay

say as many negatives as positives and try not to over emphasize either one the two most common mistakes on this paper

are one someone says that the group is the most wonderful thing they do everything right

or the opposite this group stunk they do everything wrong well the truth always falls in between

those two points so try to be as balanced as you possibly can and remember try to put details give

examples don't say vague they did wonderful they were really smart or something like that

precisely say what you mean give examples to try to illustrate what you mean as you can

and this is a paper okay this is a paper so write in paragraphs look at the example that i provided on brightspace

make sure you cover mop map and manage and all the sub components now how long is it going to

be well i hate to put page links for this

because i want to put you know the emphasis on do a good job if you do a good job i can't see how you

could get less than three pages type doublespaced you could easily get more

but if you're only doing a page page and a half then you know you have not done a good job on this paper and there will be

a grade accordingly try to write as much as you possibly can let me know if you have any questions