I will go through each of the five categories under effective participation and tell what I observed on our group for each one.

First- I think each member of our group was committed to do their best as time and resources allowed. Each contributed to the group in meetings and in presentations. Keith often was the leader behind our group presentations. I would say that he always was but I'm not sure that my memory is accurate. He came up with the ideas for the presentations that we ended up using, he coordinated them, made sure that everyone knew what they were doing and that they were going to do their part and be there on the day of the presentation. Charley did his part well and helped contribute ideas and suggestions for ways of presenting. Jessica and Salena came through and completed every assignment that they were given. When given parts to do for presentations they did them.

Second- In our group members had differing goals that they wanted to accomplish. Though as it became closer to the due date of the final I think those goals became more the same but because of these differences it is difficult to determine for sure if every group member was committe

Fourth- the best example I saw of possible competition in our group, though it didn't damage the group, was between Charley and Keith. They often competed on ideas as to whose idea would be used, or whose was the best, what ever it may have been. I'm not sure of any other examples of competing.

In our group there was not enough discussion about our goals, regarding what we thought needed to happen in our group, other than completing 5 evaluations of our groups. Because we didn't make sure, that as a group there was consensus, as to what needed to be achieved, in our group, we had separate goals that didn't always agree with each other. This caused difficulty in the group, which undermined group cohesiveness.

Third- Our group did not deal much with facts and opinions that would cause much tension as it might have had it been formed in an organization. But when it came to how to do the final conflict arose as different members had different ideas of how to do the final. As individuals expressed the way they saw that it was supposed to be done conflict ensued.

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