Development of Metacognitive Engineering Teams through Selected Cognitive Writing Exercises and Understanding Learning Preferences

该项目将提高学生在团队环境中的学习，让学生了解他们的个人学习方法如何影响他们在团队中合作的能力，并通过有针对性的写作练习定期反思成功合作的障碍，包括制定团队章程和解决团队动态问题的双周备忘录。 该项目的具体目标是：1。 提高学生对个人学习方法如何影响团队的认识 通过讨论学习组合量表（LCI）的结果动态。2. 帮助团队识别有效团队合作的潜在障碍3. 为学生提供开发有效团队合作和项目的工具 通过反思性的写作作业来提高管理技能。4. 发展教师技能，促进团队合作和学生在学习过程中的元认知。 这项研究的结果将在该提案的第二年夏季在大学一级传播。 团队合作是大多数工程项目的一个组成部分，在这个项目中开发的方法可以很容易地适应其他大学。

This project will enhance to student learning in team environments by providing students with an awareness of how their individual approaches to learning impacts their abilities to work together in teams and by regularly reflecting on barriers to successful teaming through targeted writing exercises, including the development of team charters and biweekly memos addressing team dynamics issues. The specific goals of the project are to: 1. Increase student awareness of how individual approaches to learning affect team dynamics through discussion of Learning Combination Inventory (LCI) results. 2. Help teams identify potential barriers to effective teaming 3. Provide students with tools to develop effective teamwork and project management skills through reflective writing assignments. 4. Develop faculty skills in facilitating teamwork and student metacognition in the learning process. Results of this study will be disseminated at the university level through summer second year of the proposal. Teamwork is an integral part of most engineering programs and the methods developed in this project can be readily adapted by other universities.