Guidelines
for Introducing Group Work
in
Undergraduate Mathematics
These guidelines result from a research study that was undertaken as a collaboration of three differing higher education institutions in the UK. Initially a survey of first year undergraduate students was conducted to find the extent to which students work in groups and their attitudes to this. Volunteer students were then interviewed to investigate these issues in more detail. Finally, members of staff were interviewed, some who had replied to an email request, and some who were approached directly, being known to have extensive experience over a number of years of using formal group work with their students. The students were drawn from the three higher education institutions, staff were interviewed at four institutions.
We would like to thank all the students and staff who generously gave their time to help with this work. Further, we would like to acknowledge the LSTN Maths, Stats and OR network for helping to supporting this work financially.
Judith MacBean, Dr Ted Graham & Dr Chris Sangwin