Individual and Group Accountability
Think about what a finished product might look like for your task. There should be, according to Cohen (1992), both individual and group accountability; students should be assessed both as an individual and a group as to their understanding in the process of completing a task.
Choose your proposed task (or someone else's task) from the previous activity. Think about what the finished product for this task will look like and ways in which to incorporate both individual and group accountability. There should be some sort of finished product from the group, whether it's an oral presentation, a written explanation of their work, or perhaps even some sort of real-world project. Ideally, the finished product will provide multiple solutions or multiple solution paths to the problem, and show conceptual understanding of the problem instead of just a solution. There also needs to be individual accountability, perhaps an exit slip or an individual test, or each student doing some sort of extension off of the group work.
In designing individual accountability, be sure to take into account that everyone has different preferred modalities for expression. Think, for example, about how a student who struggles with reading/writing or who struggles with visual representations might be able to engage with the individual component. Perhaps there could be some options or choices provided in this portion of your task.
Write below about how you are going to modify the task you chose to include both individual and group accountability.