Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Lazy Group Members There is an issue I have observed in a high school classroom in which students were split up into groups of 6 to do a collaboration project outside of class. In one group, only two members were participating while the other 4 did nothing. Time is ticking and the project due date is quickly approaching. The two participating members of the group have expressed to the teacher their frustrations with the lazy group members. They have tried reaching out to the lazy group members, but they are still not participating. What should the teacher do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) It is good to know who is participating in the projects and if you visually see the students who are actually putting in effort into the assignment then they should get individual scores for what they accomplished and should not get penalized for the other students lack of participation. Instead, remind the other students that it is a team effort and if no effort is put in then their grade will suffer.