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

这个项目将提高学生在团队环境中的学习能力，让学生意识到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团队的障碍，包括制定团队章程和两周一次的备忘录，解决团队动态问题。该项目的具体目标是：1。通过讨论学习组合清单(LCI)的结果，提高学生对个人学习方法如何影响团队动力的认识。2.帮助团队识别有效团队的潜在障碍3.为学生提供工具，通过反思性写作作业培养有效的团队合作和项目管理技能。4.培养教师在学习过程中促进团队合作和学生元认知的技能。这项研究的结果将在提议的第二年夏季期间在大学一级传播。团队合作是大多数工程项目不可或缺的一部分，该项目中开发的方法可以很容易地被其他大学采用。

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.