Assessment 2: Reflective Essay
Weight: 10%
Due time and date: 12 noon on Monday 27 October
Description of Task:
Following your group presentation (see below) you are required to individually write a short 3 page essay reflecting on the group presentation and the group work process. Your reflection must answer the following questions:
1 What was the main way in which you contributed to achievement of the group’s tasks?
2 In what way or ways did your group operate well? For instance, you may wish to identify a particular process that enabled your group to efficiently and persuasively make its presentation.
3 What was the key barrier to your group’s effectiveness? What did you and your group do to overcome the barrier?
For instance, you could discuss the following issues in relation to each of the above questions:
Q1: The role that you played in helping the group to prepare for its presentation. You may have conducted research on points of law, or you may have thought about how best to speak to the class to convince them that your application of the law to the problem question facts is correct. Explain how this was linked to the group’s objectives.
Q2: You might like to discuss the process by which your group assigned tasks for the presentation and allocated responsibility for ensuring that assigned tasks were carried out or subject to review by another group member.
Q3: Did your group experience difficulty in undertaking collaborative and creative problem solving? For instance, did your group meet to discuss what the best application of the law to the problem question facts might be, or did the group simply agree to divide up the problem question amongst group members, meaning that less creativity and collaboration could be achieved?
The above examples do not limit the issues that you can discuss. There are a broad range of issues that you could discuss in addressing the 3