What are students really doing in team projects?
How can we make them better?
Location
Online
What are students really doing in team projects? – Online Event
Date & Time
February 13, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Teamwork skills are crucial for college students, both for their learning while at university and for their success afterwards. The potential value of teamwork is reflected in how modern pedagogy has shifted its emphasis from a lecture/discussion format, and in how common it now is for instructors to ask students to produce group projects. However, relatively few tools are available to effectively assess the teamwork skills of students and provide a basis for improving them, and those that do exist suffer from a variety of shortcomings.
This project advances what we know by recording, with permission, the interactions of students who are working on a series of case-study problems in teams and conducts a range of analyses to identify which student behaviors are correlated with positive team outcomes. This presentation will describe the structure of the class we used to collect the data, preliminary findings, and what worked (as well as what didn’t) from our delivery of the initial version of the class. This first iteration prepares the way for later work, in which students will be provided with feedback designed to help them maximize teamwork behaviors that optimize outcomes and minimize teamwork behaviors which do not.
Research Team: Simon Stacey (Director, Honors College) Robert Carpenter (Professor of Economics, Deputy Chief Information Officer, and Associate Provost for Analytics) Technical Advisor: Len Mancini (Data Scientist, Provost’s Office)
Research Team: Simon Stacey (Director, Honors College) Robert Carpenter (Professor of Economics, Deputy Chief Information Officer, and Associate Provost for Analytics) Technical Advisor: Len Mancini (Data Scientist, Provost’s Office)
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