For the Research Project, Mushtaq, Yu Ying and I formed a group. Our research topic is to find out the students’ sentiments toward bell curve grading in NUS and make appropriate discussions and suggestions to it.
Investigation on this topic of bell curves grading is an enjoyable experience although it is not easy (due to NUS reluctance to disclose information on this). This topic is very interesting because of its relevance to us. Thus choosing of an interesting topic is very important too and from the beginning of the project, everyone is consensus on the survey report topic.
In this project, we also recognize the value of dividing and assigning task according to our strength. For instance, Yu Ying is better in language thus it was best that she help us with the editing of grammar and expression. Mushtaq knows many people across the four major faculties in NUS thus he volunteered to distribute the survey forms and collate the survey results. For me, I am familiar with researching on relevant articles and information thus I looked into article for information and use them for the discussion on bell curve grading. Through this, we can also learn from other people’s strength.
In addition, an open environment for us to speak up and voice out differing views and any doubts that we may have is important to clarify doubts as well as resolve the differing views. Sometimes, different viewpoints within the group are good by preventing Groupthink from occurring. This way, our report can be more objective and critical.
In conclusion, skills like empathy and understanding of group mate’s feelings, tactfulness, and articulation of ones opinion as well as contributing your strong points to project, are needed in order to work well with other people. These are experienced through this project and will be very useful for our oral presentation or any other projects that we might do in the future.
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Hi Yuanlin,
I agree with you that this topic we chose was very interesting. It faciliated in the effectiveness of our working progress because we were interesting in this topic and were motivated to do research on it.
I also agree with you about us each identifying our niche areas and contributing effectively into the research project. This helped tremendously in our course of work as we were able to fill in for each other.
I am looking forward to the oral presentation and working with you guys again.
Hey Yuan Lin,
It was a good research topic that we decided to do on. I have to thank Yu Yin for that. It was a good experience working with you and getting to know you better throughout the project.
As you mentioned, we recognized the value of dividing and assigning tasks according to our strengths and we distributed the work evenly among ourselves.I agree that skills like empathy and understanding of group mate’s feelings, tactfulness, and articulation of ones opinion as well as contributing your strong points to project are needed in order to work well with other people. I learnt to adapt to each other's working style. It was truly a learning experience. I am looking forward to the oral presentation and working with you guys again. Hopefully we can do a great job again working with each other.
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