Strauss, P.U, A.2009-05-282009-05-28200720072007Higher Education Research and Development, 26(2), pp.147-161https://hdl.handle.net/10292/641'Group is good, and group is good for curing all social ills' was the cynical observation of one of the lecturers in this study. Her comment reflects the uneasiness of lecturers at tertiary institutions with the notion that the educational advantages of group assessments far outweigh the disadvantages, and that such an approach promotes the integration of minority groups in multicultural universities. The dilemmas facing lecturers in multicultural tertiary classrooms are reflected on in this paper, when they adopt group assessment as a means of evaluation and highlight those challenges that often jeopardize the successful implementation of this type of practice.This is the authors' accepted version of an article for the Journal of Higher Education Research and Development.Group assessmentsImplementationLecturersMulticulturalTertiaryJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1080/07294360701310789