Reflection on the Group Assignment

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Running head: REFLECTION ON THE GROUP ASSIGNMENT
REFLECTION ON THE GROUP ASSIGNMENT
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Description:
For the module named “study and Research skills”, the entire class was divided into a number of
groups. The professor had instructed all the groups to conduct a research on the topic of
requirement of sleep in the student life and we needed to represent it within the deadline fixed by
the professor. This topic was quite interesting to us as were also students and could relate with
the importance of the topic entirely. Researchers have always stated that sleep pays an important
role in the life of the student. As a student, people have their own different schedules as well as
activities that they need to conduct throughout the days. This in turn affects their sleeping
pattern. Sleep is indeed very important as it helps in the restoration of the energy of the body and
thereby helps in improvement of the thinking procedures, reasoning and decision making in a
swift manner helping individuals to think more clearly as well as creatively. Sleeps helps
individuals feel less stressed and all these have positive impact on the studies of individuals in
the class that help them to internalize the knowledge imparted in class. Therefore, I was assigned
a classmate of Chinese background to work along as a group to find out the number of hours that
are required by students for adequate sleep helping them to give their best performance in the
class. For this topic, we had to conduct primary researches for understanding the viewpoints of
the students in our campus only and thereby analyze the duration of sleep considered by most of
the students to be important for studying properly in class. It was a quantitative research and the
total word cunt was about 1000 words.
Feeling:
When the project was introduced, I was quite excited about the project. The main reason of my
excitement was that I was able to research on a topic that was associated with the daily activities

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of our life and the result of the research would be helpful to us for developing our study skills,
patience and releasing of stress. However, at the same time I was also concerned that as I have
not conducted any primary researches beforehand, I might not be able to conduct the research
successfully or might make mistakes in the research procedures that may result in failure of the
assignment. However, I did not let my fear affect my courage and therefore I decided to move on
without being concerned about the failure of the results. However, one thing that had totally let
me down was thinking of the fact that I was allocated within a group where I was not
comfortable with the members with whom I have to work. I had to work with a Chinese member
with whom I had never communicated in class. I got no members in the group with whom I was
very comfortable and therefore I was highly disappointed. I also grew quite concerned about how
to develop rapport and work with an individual whom I know nothing about. I had become
fearful about the outcome of the research project as I started doubting on the abilities of my
Chinese group member. Therefore, I did not feel like attending meetings or developing
interaction with my team members as I was feeling that all my attempts would be in vain as my
members would not be able to work in a collaborative manner due to cultural differences.
However, as time passed on, we started interacting with each, spent time with each either, went
out on informal meetings and many others. My negative behavior was gradually being replaced
with positive feelings about the Chinese member and I started developing hope for the
assignment. We completed the stages like planning, conducting background research, devising if
instrument, conducting for researches successfully, analyzing of the reports and writing the
reports successfully in a collaborative manner. I was quite overwhelmed to see such achievement
even after being unfamiliar to each other and completely unknown to each other. Although we
could not get very high marks, but we managed to get descent marks. I was quite happy that this