Broadly all groups with the excepti

Broadly all groups with the exception of Group 1 and 5 demonstrated a relationship between effort expended (time-ontask) and grade achieved (performance). In the case of Group 5, this was a ‘control’ group whose formation was not determined by the GPM and the establishment or otherwise of ‘common ground’ was left to group processes. They were randomly assembled and given the same task and resources as other groups; as such they did not have the same environment the other groups had. Their results can be therefore compared with other groups to determine the impact of GPM.