Effective work begins with the organization of a team, a group of people with complementary skills, connected by a single plan, striving for common goals, and sharing responsibility for their achievements. Each team member should have a specific skill, participate in decision-making, and interact effectively with other people (Yu, 2019). Moreover, members depend on each other because their work is interrelated. The students in our small group had a past teamwork experience; thus, everyone strived to exchange information with others and contribute to the best of their abilities. Indeed, the results of this project were more rigorous due to dynamic collaboration within the team.
Team accountability is a specific promise that generates trust and guarantees the achievement of results. In scientific work, it is manifested in methods that increase the accuracy of research indicators (Yu, 2019). As our group found out during this project, proper literature review and establishing methodology are essential to determine and exclude systematic errors in the measurement process and obtain accurate results. Therefore, each team member conducted extensive research to gain an in-depth comprehension of the topic. Furthermore, the analysis of the results was done collectively to ensure the highest precision. As our experience showed, every student in this group demonstrated reliability by providing completed tasks on time.
In summary, the essence of group work allows for a joint effort to improve understanding of the project questions and reduce systematic errors in the research. Our team had an instant connection and cooperation between members, which simplified the entire process of literature review, data collection, and evaluation of results. Overall, this assignment would be more challenging if it was an individual task, and teamwork was helpful to complete this project successfully.
Yu, S. (2019). Science of scientific team science: A survey. Computer Science Review, 31, 72-83.