Assessing Student Team Effectiveness

评估学生团队的效率

• 批准号: 0512776
• 负责人: PK Imbrie
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0512776&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; Student; Team; Effectiveness

The project is developing both an instrument and a procedure that are specifically designed to allow students to assess their individual and team effectiveness using a web-based peer evaluation process. The process is being designed to correct for rater-bias (e.g., halo, leniency, severity) automatically. With this instrument, engineering faculty can determine: (1) how successful a teaming experience actually is for participating students, (2) the impact of team training methods on the teaming experience, (3) what team formation strategies best promote course learning objectives, and (4) the types of intervention strategies that will improve overall team functionality. Indicators of effective teams are being based on peer evaluations for each team member, as provided by other team members. Vignettes are being used to investigate the accuracy of students' ratings of team members, and to correct for rater bias, as compared to expert judgments, in actual peer ratings. Students' perceptions of functionality are being operationalized in terms of a self-report instrument requiring students to indicate the degree their team is working together across a range of domains, including interdependency, learning, potency, and goal-setting. In evaluating their project, the investigators are comparing the attitudes of students who have used the instrument to those of earlier students who did not. They also are cross-validating effectiveness prediction with an instructor's observations of team effectiveness and with the students' course grades. In addition an Assessment Review Panel meets semi-annually to monitor progress and identify problems. The approach is being tested at three other institutions. The investigators plan to present and publish their work in both engineering education and general higher education research venues.

该项目正在开发一种工具和程序，专门设计用于让学生使用基于网络的同行评估流程来评估其个人和团队的有效性。 该流程旨在自动纠正评估者偏见（例如光环、宽大、严厉）。借助该工具，工程教师可以确定：(1) 团队合作体验对于参与的学生来说实际上有多成功，(2) 团队培训方法对团队合作体验的影响，(3) 哪种团队形成策略最能促进课程学习目标，以及 (4) 可以提高团队整体功能的干预策略类型。有效团队的指标基于其他团队成员提供的对每个团队成员的同行评估。小插图被用来调查学生对团队成员评分的准确性，并在实际同行评分中与专家判断相比，纠正评分者的偏见。学生对功能的看法正在通过自我报告工具得以实施，要求学生表明他们的团队在一系列领域（包括相互依赖性、学习、效力和目标设定）合作的程度。 在评估他们的项目时，研究人员将使用该仪器的学生的态度与早期未使用该仪器的学生的态度进行比较。 他们还将有效性预测与教师对团队有效性的观察以及学生的课程成绩进行交叉验证。 此外，评估审查小组每半年举行一次会议，以监测进展并发现问题。 该方法正在其他三个机构进行测试。 研究人员计划在工程教育和普通高等教育研究场所展示和发表他们的工作。