Complaints about group projects in class

If you've assigned group projects in your class, you've probably also had complaints about them. Seniors and recent graduates on a panel at the Teaching Professor conference all agreed they were problematic. The article in CHE provides a link to this piece by Oakley, Brent, Felder & Elhajj, (2004) on improving the design and assessment of group projects--everyone agrees there have to be individual performance measures included.