Factors of a successful team in a capstone course Archives

Effects of the Meetings-Flow Approach on Quality Teamwork in the Training of Software Capstone Projects

Posted on 7 January 2021

“A team process known as the meetings-flow (MF) approach has recently been introduced in software capstone projects in engineering programs at various institutions...The results revealed that MF significantly enhances a team's communication and coordination and balances members' contributions by giving mutual support and effort. It has relatively less influence, however, on student team cohesion.” (p.201) […]

Using wikis to investigate communication, collaboration and engagement in Capstone engineering design projects

Posted on 7 January 2021

“Wikis were set up for teams of engineering students from different disciplinary backgrounds and years...Wikis were considered a potentially useful tool to track engagement for Capstone design projects in engineering subjects.” (p.247) “Overall, the first cohort of students perceived the wiki to be a useful tool, with 62% of the cohort agreeing or strongly agreeing […]

Cooperative Learning Instructional Activities in a Capstone Design Course

Posted on 7 January 2021

“Our experiences convinced us that the cooperative learning approach both enhanced our students’ understanding of these topics and encouraged them to incorporate the associated skills into their working skill set. Including team exercises that dealt with various steps in the design process provided a “jump-start” on these unfamiliar activities in a structured, short duration exercise […]

Designing Project-Based Courses with a Focus on Group Formation and Assessment

Posted on 7 January 2021

Approaches to evaluating individual students within the group include student distribution of grade points within a group (peer evaluation), peer evaluation of project tasks and group maintenance tasks (peer evaluation), multiplying the group grade by an individual weighting (instructor/self peer/group evaluation), group grade plus/minus individual contribution grade (instructor/self/peer/group evaluation), shared group grade with instructor intervention […]

The importance of multidisciplinary teamwork and team climate for relational coordination among teams delivering care to older patients

Posted on 7 January 2021

“Relational coordination was measured by the Relational Coordination survey; team climate by the Team Climate Inventory and questions were asked about participation in multidisciplinary team meetings and disciplines represented in these meetings...The number of disciplines represented during multidisciplinary team meetings and team climate were positively related with relational coordination. The multilevel analysis showed a positive […]

The impact of diversity, prior academic achievement and goal orientation on learning performance in group capstone projects

Posted on 7 January 2021

“Diversity in respect to the nationalities in the group was related to poorer performance...The results suggest that groups made up of students of different nationalities tend to have lower grades compared to homogeneous groups. In contrast, having a group with a mix of GPAs can result in higher grades on the project.” (p.913) Cheng, L. […]

Solving Real World Problems With Alternate Reality Gaming: Student Experiences in the Global Village Playground Capstone Course Design

Posted on 7 January 2021

“The struggle to coordinate group processes and tasks is a common challenge in collaborative problem-solving environments (Barron, 2000; Kim & Hannafin, 2011)...Other tensions among students related to self-regulation, participation, and individual accountability in student dynamics.” (Project Leadership, para.1) “Scott (2014) delineates this dynamic in the team level characteristic she named Learning Team collaboration. This characteristic […]

Experiential Exercise in Team Formation in the Capstone: Providing Students With the Information to Make Good Team Choices

Posted on 7 January 2021

“The exercise, conducted over one or two class meetings, allows students to learn about well-balanced team construction, present themselves to their classmates, interview each other, and choose who they would like to work with without the restrictions of seat proximity or prior connection. Results show students perceived that their teams were more available for meetings […]

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 […]