ABSTRACT
One of the perennial concerns in education is how to assess students’ learning. This is important in an environment where cooperative and team interaction forms the heart of learning. How does the teacher or coach know what a student knows when he or she is always working in a collective or as a team? This chapter explores different ways of assessing students’ individual learning and contributions to lessons. Furthermore, it shows how to avoid ‘social loafing’ and ‘ghosting’ (ways in which students pretend to be involved but instead rely on the work of others to gain a good grade) and shows how groups can become enthused about assessment and come to see it as a means of showing both the individual’s and the group’s collective development.
