>As a mature-age student, I also returned to study and found the “group assessment” diabolical. Sometimes you got students who were equally committed to the project, but more often many were not. One student, apart from barely turning up to group meetings and expecting us to explain and do everything for her, plagiarised my work. (It was for a group presentation). When I confronted her about this, she said it was normal to copy in China…
>At the end of the semester, I asked our tutor if he was going to pass her as she contributed barely anything. He said as she was a foreign, full-fee paying student, he was obligated to pass her…. I am all for student diversity, but a two-tier assessment (one for foreign students and one for locals) is, of course, not equitable nor ethical…
>Russell McGilton, Coburg North
Basically domestic students are carrying Chinese students on their backs through group work.
>At the end of the semester, I asked our tutor if he was going to pass her as she contributed barely anything. He said as she was a foreign, full-fee paying student, he was obligated to pass her…. I am all for student diversity, but a two-tier assessment (one for foreign students and one for locals) is, of course, not equitable nor ethical…
>Russell McGilton, Coburg North
Basically domestic students are carrying Chinese students on their backs through group work.
