Making group-work work: Navigating conflict and encouraging collaborative revision

Group work, especially for comprehensive class projects, is ubiquitous in higher education, yet despised by many students. In college, many students simply do not learn how to interact when in groups and how to collaborate effectively. Furthermore, by limiting student assessment of group work solely to a final project grade, students do not have the opportunity to collaboratively reflect on feedback and revise. Inspired by the massive failure of group comprehensive projects in my bioacoustics course, I will share tips I learned to navigate intra-group conflict, provide students with critical feedback on work at 3 key periods throughout the course, encourage collaborative revision, and engage with other groups via peer feedback.