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Quick guide to group projects
Project Qualifications allow students to undertake a project by themselves or as part of a group.
If students are working on a group production or event project they must still define their
individual role and tasks carried out within the group, and use this as the basis for their
Production Log. Although the overall end product may be the same for all students, it is
important that students are assessed on their individual contribution and not as a group.
A group should contain no more than four students and each Production Log must declare all
students involved under Part B: Supervisor’s comments on candidate proposal.
Common mistakes with group projects
Submitting a photocopied Production Log for all students:
It is frequently the case that students submit projects containing largely identical material to other
group members and there is little to evidence what their individual contribution has been.
Students must complete their own Production Log so that each student’s individual development
can be assessed.
In addition, supervisors should not provide generic advice and comments for all students as
each student’s skills and abilities are different. It is possible for the students in a group to have
different supervisors which will allow the supervisor to focus on the individual when offering
advice and marking the project, rather than viewing it as a collective effort.
Students focusing on the group effort:
It is common for students to use the phrase ‘we’ within their Production Logs and to focus on the
joint aims and end product of the team. Students who do not make their role clear put themselves
at a disadvantage. Supervisors need to ensure that students fully understand the need to focus
on their individual contribution to the group project and this should be discussed at the initial
planning stage. To provide students with the opportunity to explore how they are able to
contribute individually to the group project, supervisors should advise the group to assign
individual duties and responsibilities to each member.
Students collaborating to produce one written research-based report:
Students need to complete their own report in order for the moderator to ascertain exactly what
each student has done. Reports that are produced as a joint effort mean that it is impossible to
tell exactly what each student has contributed. Students wishing to work as a group should be
advised that it is imperative that each of their individual contributions is explicit and identifiable in
the final outcome.
