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5 CONCLUSIONS
The problem of allocating students to equitable
working teams is a well known practical problem –
many Higher Education institutions throughout the
world face this problem when trying to improve the
learning process for their students. GroupUp is a
simple tool to resolve this problem in practice (a trial
version of the software is available on request from
v.deineko@warwick.ac.uk). We are now planning to
undertake some extensive collaborative research
with both practitioners and researchers in the field of
education. This collaboration will explore how
different rules for constructing the groups influence
both the group dynamics and the efficiency and
effectiveness of group performance.
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