Common pattern for the research project

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.