Group work?

So what do you call it when everybody does the assignment and then gets together and compares answers?
Projective assessment is a course of nothing but shades of grey, but yet all of the students are scurrying about comparing answers. Admittedly this tends to foster discussion that increase the level of understanding and are generally good for the education process, but in a class where the material and the instructor is entirely subjective it seems a little foolish.

So I did not participate. I did have about 12 people (75% of the class) asking to see what my answers were.

Here is the true fly in the ointment – The assignments are graded on a curve, AND what a curve. The average score on assignments is in the low to mid 40%s. It is interesting to me that if the class (in a majority) gets together and submits the same answers AND the average class score is in the low 40% that gives a huge advantage to the student who options out of the group work. That’s Me!!!!