Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based Strategies

使用循证策略优化学生团队技能发展

• 批准号: 1431694
• 负责人: Matthew Ohland
• 金额: $ 170.78万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Optimizing; Student; Team; Skill; Development

The critical importance of effective teamwork in engineering is widely recognized. Surprisingly, however, relatively little is known about how to develop teamwork skills in higher education classes, including what factors contribute to effective teamwork, their relative importance in a team's overall performance, and the underlying individual and interpersonal dynamics. Increasing numbers of engineering instructors are adopting instructional practices relying on teamwork, yet many instructors simply form student teams and hope the members individually and collectively learn on their own how to work in teams and succeed in their task(s). Instructors do this because they do not have guidance for a better approach. This research project aims to address this gap in faculty knowledge.The empirical studies conducted as part of this project build on research in engineering education, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and other fields in a coordinated large-scale research project that will provide faculty with needed knowledge and tools to ensure that students learn team skills. The research team is conducting seven separate studies measuring the impact of teamwork training, experience working in teams, practice rating the teamwork of fictitious team members, and giving and receiving peer feedback. The research is measuring each of these effects in real teams on three learning outcomes: improved teamwork knowledge, improved ability to evaluate teamwork, and improved ability to function effectively in teams. These studies will result in practical recommendations for time-pressed faculty to implement.

有效的团队合作在工程中的重要性得到了广泛的认可。然而，令人惊讶的是，人们对如何在高等教育课堂上发展团队合作技能知之甚少，包括哪些因素有助于有效的团队合作，它们在团队整体表现中的相对重要性，以及潜在的个人和人际动态。越来越多的工程指导员采用依靠团队合作的教学实践，但许多指导员只是简单地组建学生团队，希望成员单独和集体学习如何在团队中工作并成功完成任务(S)。教师之所以这样做，是因为他们没有更好的方法指导。这项研究项目旨在解决教师知识方面的差距。作为该项目的一部分，进行的实证研究建立在一个协调的大型研究项目中的工程教育、认知心理学、社会心理学和其他领域的研究基础上，该项目将为教师提供所需的知识和工具，以确保学生学习团队技能。该研究团队正在进行七项独立的研究，衡量团队合作培训、团队工作经验、练习对虚拟团队成员的团队合作进行评分，以及给予和接受同行反馈的影响。这项研究正在衡量真实团队中这些影响对三个学习结果的影响：提高团队合作知识，提高评估团队合作的能力，以及提高在团队中有效运作的能力。这些研究将为时间紧迫的教职员工提出切实可行的建议来实施。