I can’t help but think the focus on competition is a fairly bad idea. If a student can raise the entire group’s score by 10%, that is far more commendable than raising their own individual score by 20%. We don’t want high-scoring individuals, we want to win. That’s something which is quite often done as part of a group, in the real world.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/
I can’t help but think the focus on competition is a fairly bad idea. If a student can raise the entire group’s score by 10%, that is far more commendable than raising their own individual score by 20%. We don’t want high-scoring individuals, we want to win. That’s something which is quite often done as part of a group, in the real world.