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Despite this pleasing outcome, some students were not happy that an exam existed at all.Although the comment below was made before the exam was sat, Vaughn’s assessment of hislikely performance was quite accurate:Vaughn I do well in assignments and not so well in the exams.This system favours those who do well at exams i.e. they get toshare in the results from me working hard on the assignments butI don’t get to share the results of their ability to do well inthe exams. This will results in my grade average moving downwhile theirs moves up and that from my point of view is notfair! If these design studios are to be fair then all theassessment should be from group work i.e. no exams. If this isnot going to the case i.e. exams remain not then I would preferto go back to the old system i.e. working alone. Even it meantworking alone when everyone else is in a group.Effort had been made to integrate other tasks into the learning environment. This still causedsome problems – students considered these peripheral to the problems being tackled, eventhough these other tasks were part of the learning objectives of the unit:Dermot I think we should delete things like the reading journal,and some of the individual tasks that are a bit ridiculous, suchas the mind maps, 38 mind maps are a bit harshSimon Maybe, it is not necessary to have many organizing task, asfor example the reading log or the activity log, to do in theproject. I would not delete it, but maybe it would not a quitebad idea to decrease the amount of workload of doing organizingthings and, also, increasing the amount of learning new methods,issues or other facts of software engineering content. Of courseit is essential to know how to write a reading log or activitylog but is it essential doing it all the time? On the other handyou are only be able to see the advantage of a reading oractivity log at the end of a project and if you have done it allthe time during the projectMost telling are comments made in response to the question regarding individual studentperception of their learning in this environment:363