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Developing Curriculum to Enhance Student Achievement

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  • “This paper presents the qualitative evaluation of the Interdisciplinary management tool (IMT), an evidence-based change tool designed to ...enhance interdisciplinary teamwork through structured team reflection. The IMT incorporates three components: an evidence-based resource guide; a reflective implementation framework based on structured, facilitated action research for implementation methodology; and formative and summative evaluation components...The IMT successfully engaged staff in the change process, and resulted in teams developing creative strategies to address the issues identified.” (p.437)

  • “The second study tested the effects of a computer-based training (CBT) strategy that was designed to develop teamwork mental models that ...were similar to the ‘expert model’ described in Study 1.” (p.179) “After one-hour of training with the CBT tool, trainees were more consistent in representing their teamwork mental models as assessed by the card sort measure.” (p.190)

  • “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 relationship between the number of disciplines represented during multidisciplinary team meetings and team climate with relational coordination.” (p.791)

  • “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 relationship between the number of disciplines represented during multidisciplinary team meetings and team climate with relational coordination.” (p.791)

  • “Participants engaged in a modified version of the Distributed Dynamic Decision (DDD) making Simulation...The objective of the simulation is to... maximize the number of team points...” (p.649) “Results indicated that training significantly increased declarative knowledge within the team as evidenced by improved scores on Stevens and Campion’s Teamwork KSA Test.” (p.663) “Teamwork-KSA test, related to team performance, which was assessed by examining conflict resolution, collaborative problem solving, communication, performance management, and task coordination within the team.” (p.646)(p.791)

  • “One common method provides a group with a rating scale to use in forming a single response obtained through open discussion ... By focusing on ... direct interaction within the group, this approach begins to address collective origins and development of the construct but does not allow assessments of sharedness, unless paired with other measures. A popular alternative method focuses on capturing sharedness using an average of members’ individual estimates of group efficacy, thus making estimates of within-group agreement possible.” (p.452)

  • “From the analysis presented it appears that using a flexible assessment approach has been well received and appreciated by students. It allows ... students some power of choice and thus a feeling of being more in control of their own learning approach. It has not increased the amount of administrative work...It appears that students who have worked steadily throughout the semester, and have sat the mid-semester exam, and worked on all the five CML quizzes, are rewarded with the better results. The practice and feedback obtained through the CML quiz component appears to contribute strongly to students’ quality of learning. An important effect of the flexible assessment system has been the observed change in approach and attitude of the students. The reduction of some student stress levels, and students being more responsible for their method of learning, must be counted as positive outcomes.”(p.548-549) “...Students will learn better with continuous exposure and practice (allowing for reinforcement, feedback, self-assessment and a deeper approach) rather than heavy cramming at the end of a course which encourages a surface approaching and feelings of panic from ‘too much to learn’.” (p.546)

  • “...Results suggested that students’ experience of autonomy plays an important role in their course value, and especially their intrinsic and ...utility value for a course.” (p.27)

  • “...It shows that autonomy support has generally been associated with more intrinsic motivation, greater interest, less pressure and tension, ... more creativity, more cognitive flexibility, better conceptual learning, a more positive emotional tone, higher self-esteem, more trust, greater persistence of behavior change, and better physical and psychological health than has control.” (p.1024)

  • “Therefore, when offering choices, teachers should construct options that meet their students’ needs. In particular, options should be constructed ...that are relevant to students’ interests and goals (autonomy support), are not too numerous or complex yet not too easy (competence support), and are congruent with the values of the students’ families and culture of origin (relatedness support). It is also important that these choices be offered in a manner and context that meets students’ needs, or at least does not threaten those needs.” (p.439)

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