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Improving Student Teamwork in a Collaborative Project-Based Course

Posted on 7 January 2021

“The team-building workshop consists of one hour of instructor-led discussion designed to have students: (1) examine differences in individual personalities and preferred work styles; (2) identify the opportunities and obstacles that these individual differences pose for team performance and (3) explore ways to successfully work together to take advantage of the opportunities to avoid the […]

Investigating Teaching Leadership in the Capstone Marketing Course

Posted on 7 January 2021

“This study investigates the influence of teaching leadership skills in the capstone marketing course on students’ performance in group projects...Students exposed to leadership concepts in the capstone marketing course rated their peers higher on leadership skills and performed better on the group project.” (p.141) Facca-Miess, T. M. (2015). Investigating Teaching Leadership in the Capstone Marketing […]

An assessment of predictors of student peer evaluations of team work in the capstone campaigns course

Posted on 7 January 2021

In a study by Lubbers, students evaluated the contributions of their group members using a two-part evaluation form. Significant predictors of individual dollar allocations include “offered ideas and suggestions”, “good, quality work”, “dependability”, “willing to cooperate”, and “fair share of the writing”. Significant predictors of group dollar allocations include “get along with group members”, “met […]

The influence of personality and ability on undergraduate teamwork and team performance

Posted on 7 January 2021

“Extraversion was negatively correlated to failing to do an equal share, and positively correlated to taking a leadership role, encouraging the group to be timely, and delivering promised work. Agreeableness was, unsurprisingly, negatively correlated to efforts to excessively dominate group discussions. Conscientiousness was positively correlated to being engaged, taking a leadership role, contributing useful ideas, […]

Survey Tools for Faculty to Quickly Assess Multidisciplinary Team Dynamics in Capstone Courses

Posted on 7 January 2021

“Teams that operated together closely developed stronger shared mental models towards their team’s tasks as a whole team. This enhanced their performance and efficiency across both platforms (discipline and integration)...Yet, as the project progressed the teams become more collaborative and problems decreased more quickly.” (p.22) Solnosky, R., & Fairchild, J. (2017). Survey Tools for Faculty […]