Systematic Team Formation Leading to Peer Support and Leadership Skills Development

Kiassat, Corey; Jiang, Xiang

doi:10.18260/p.26001

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“…In another section of the course students formed their own teams and pick their own team leader. The study showed that the students in the sections having teams formed based on the academic ability on the average performed slightly better than those in the section that teams were formed by students [3].…”

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Performance Balanced Team Formation for Group Study and Design Projects

Karimi¹,

Manteufel²

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Students should learn to work in teams in undergraduate engineering courses. In many cases students form their own teams for group study and design projects. This paper describes a performance-based team formation method implemented in two upper-division mechanical engineering thermal science courses. The instructor formed teams based on early academic performance in the class. Students with the highest exam scores were assigned as team leaders, and other students were distributed among the teams based on their exam scores in order to balance the talent among the teams. The team members were required to complete a design project together and were also encouraged to study together on homework assignments. As an incentive, the team members received bonus points. The team formation process was based on student performance has the advantages of being easy to implement and explain to reluctant students. A follow -up survey shows that the majority of students liked the performance balanced team formation method while some suggested broadening the performance metric and inclusion of peer evaluations to assess individual student grades in the team design project.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Other instructors allow student to self-select with no input from the instructor or may use extensive groupings to in areas such as outside work, commitments, personality, motivation, talent and other qualities [3]. In one section of a course students were placed in teams based on their academic ability.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Balanced Team Formation for Group Study and Design Projects

Karimi¹,

Manteufel²

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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“…Since its development, there has been a significant growth in its use in education. Several studies describe CATME as a tool for both team formation and team evaluation in engineering education [10,[15][16][17][18]. Most relevant to this paper is Team-Maker the CATME tool that facilities formation of effective teams using several characteristics.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%