There can be a team of people working on a task (see resources) but one person has to be answerable to a task being completed on time.
According to Csikszentmihalyi (1975), when a person is working on a task, if the task is far below the one's ability, it will induce boredom; on the contrary, if the task is far above the one's ability, it will induce anxiety.
So, set the goal of working on a task for a short time, and then reassess.
When working on a task or reading, good lighting should be provided throughout the room.
"We got some DVD footage of say, Ghana, and then five of the candidates would be Ghana and work on a task related to them.
After spending two years in Kabul, Islamabad and Washington, Mr. Farrow began working on a task force for Secretary Clinton (which became the Office of Global Youth Issues) aimed at engaging young people in more than 40 countries.
Even if you think you're a conscientious, hardworking type, you may still be prone to social loafing, the tendency for people to put in less effort when working on a task with a group than they would do if alone.
In the real-effort paradigm, participants work on a task, and outcomes depend on their performance.
In this micro-adaptive-only condition, students received scaffolding while working on a task (within-task adaptivity) based on their individual performance on that particular task.
Indeed, a necessary step towards instruction adaptation is assessing students' knowledge state such that appropriate instructional tasks (macro-adaptation) are selected and appropriate scaffolding is offered while students are working on a task (micro-adaptation or within-task adaptation).
