REPORT ON GROUP ASSESSMENT PROCESS
1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE GROUP
- Type of group
- Placement
- Group features: size, sexual composition, others.
2. DESCRIPTION OF THE EPISODES
- Date/s
- Placement/s
- Episode’s total time:
- Recorded time
- Type of recording:
3. AGENTS
- Number of agents
- Description of their expertise
- Coincidence indexes
- Criteria and procedures of final agreements
4. ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS
- Brief description of protocols, scales, questionnaires, checklist… used for.
(Test liability, standardization and validity indexes, authorship, etc).
(MATERIAL SHOULD BE PLACED AT annexes)
5. DATA ANALYSIS (areas)
5.1. CONTENT VARIABLES
- Aims and working objectives
- Formal roles (deviant behaviors, compliance, complementary roles…)
- Nature of tasks (supra-ordinal tasks, creative, etc.)
- Leadership
- Decision making process (group think process)
- Individual behavior analysis
- Formal norms (types, degree of acceptance…)
- Overall work process: target-division-coordination-integration
5.2. PROCESS VARIABLES
- Group cohesion
- Memberships
- Communication
- Informal roles (deviant behaviors, compliance, idiosyncratic credits…)
- Active participation (social loafing, de-motivation, social facilitation…)
- Conflicts and power positions
- Informal norms
- Working climate and personal motivation/satisfaction (alienation, HWT*)
- Group culture
6. GRAPHICS AND CHARTS (They could be placed in chapter 5)
7. GROUP DIAGNOSIS
- Group developmental stage
- Detected problems in certain areas
- Short/medium/long-term group forecasts
- Overall assessment of the group functioning
- Improvement suggestions
8. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
9. ANNEXES (assessment instruments)
• HWT: High working team.
