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 In some high schools and universities, the students havegroup works, giving the members of a group the same grade(credit), do you think
 it can evaluate the students?
 
   
   
 When comes to group works, most of high schools anduniversities give students in a same team an unifying evaluation, regardless to
 individual's contribution. On the surface it seems a little bit unfair---how to
 distinguish the most hard-working one from those just slacking off? As far as I
 am concerned, this kind of standard, however, can reveal the outcome of a piece
 of work finished by a group of student. Additionally students could therefore
 be aware of the significance of being a team by learning how to play different
 roles in one single subject, and then form a sense of responsibility for their
 teams.
 
   
   
 In the first place, consider the nature of the group work, asubject completed by a group of students instead of one, students have to
 establish their roles in their group works. For example, someone need to
 organize and make general plans for the whole team as a leader, someone need to
 deal with the computer and is responsible for preparing slides as a technology
 supporter, and so forth. By recognizing the various roles, students may
 therefore have an idea that a project is going to be conducted relying on more
 than one person from various aspects. Moreover, nothing but the coordination
 would constitute the final success of the whole project. Only one minor mistake
 made by one person may result with a failure of the whole project. Accordingly,
 every member should contribute their whole efforts in their areas in order to
 guarantee the final success. Thus a single evaluation can fairly reflect the
 outcome made by all members. Otherwise it would be not objective if we only favor
 the leader and ignore the technology supporter's efforts.
 
   
   
 Besides, consider if only the leader or the speaker who isresponsible for the final presentation get the credit, who would like to do the
 preparation work, such as draft the text, find the music, or set the background
 information? Students, by finishing group work together, need to know that
 everybody contributes a part, and they, in turn, should get the credit that they
 deserve. Students should know that only one or two student's efforts are unable
 to come up with the final result.
 
   
   
 Upon considering all the above facts, we can see the advantagesare overweigh the disadvantages in giving the same evaluation standard to every
 single member, hence I agree that students should be given a same evaluation
 standard in a group work because it is fair, objective, and educational.
 
   
   
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