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Characteristics of Successful Team Projects
Preparing Students for Group Learning
Building Teams for Group Learning
Assessing Learning of Students
Wrapping Up a Team Project
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This is the most appropriate time in the semester to talk about dealing with "hitchhikers and couch potatoes"
What is the first week of class?
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This document should be the first time students learn they will be completing a team project.
What is the course syllabus?
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Advantages of this team-forming strategy include teams are likely to be diverse and assignment is less work
What is random group assignment?
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This summative assessment technique can be a tool to promote group collaboration and assess team output.
What is a collaborative quiz/exam?
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This component of project wrap-up allows the instructor to gauge how students feel about their learning in a written record.
What is conducting a paper survey?
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Ensuring your group project serves these fundamental components of course design will ensure that students benefit from the group project.
What are learning goals?
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This is a practical example of why teamwork is beneficial to students.
What is one of the following: formation of a more complex project, teamwork takes place in your discipline, positive experience, employers are looking for grads who work in teams, part of University’s student development outcomes?
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This team forming strategy has a high chance of forming unbalanced teams and excluding student who are non-native English speakers or from marginalized social groups
What is allowing students to form their own teams?
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This method of assessing individual contributions can be provided by other group members to gauge student effort in both short and long-term projects, and can be used in both formative and summative contexts.
What is peer review?
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This is an advantage of giving a non-anonymous feedback survey at the end of the semester (or keeping track of who has turned in a survey)
Increasing participation by awarding points for completion of the survey.
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By providing the expectation that students will not "divide and conquer" the co-facilitation sessions, Paul promoted this aspect of group learning.
What are collaboration and/or team decision-making?
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This strategy for preparing students for group learning can both generate enthusiasm among students as well as provide interesting and creative projects for grading.
What is building in elements of choice?
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This team forming strategy takes time to survey students, but will likely form teams in which students are motivated by the topic of their project.
What is assigning teams based on project interest?
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This assessment of individual understanding requires students to submit writing describing their experience on the team project and what they learned over the course of the activity, and can be combined with other parts of the activity for their grade.
What is a reflective essay/individual writing?
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This method of celebrating project success can allow the instructor to link group final products with the course learning goals.
What is reviewing the accomplishments of each team?
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The difference between “Describe how hair evolved” and “Summarize three hypotheses regarding the evolution for hair and evaluate the evidence for each” can improve students' chances of creating a successful group project.
What is a specific or well-defined prompt?
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This strategy of generating student enthusiasm can also clarify any questions students have about what the project entails
What is showcasing past work or having previous students comment on their experience?
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This optional strategy for forming groups has been illustrated to promote interaction among members and may be used to facilitate equal participation among quieter and outspoken students
What is assigning group roles?
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Name the two methods of peer evaluation discussed in the reading and explain why one is favored
Team citizenship vs relative contribution, team citizenship is generally favored because it’s not inherently competitive & values teamwork
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This assessment technique can provide a benchmark for students to gauge their own learning, especially if accompanied by an assessment at the beginning of the course.
What is an end-of-class knowledge survey?
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On your “Getting to know you” survey, a large group of students in your course say that they are completely unavailable to meet outside of class. This type of team arrangement could be a modern solution to your scheduling problem.
What are virtual groups?
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Mid-semester, one member of a team in your class angrily states to you that their team member was supposed to have been taking meeting notes all semester but nobody has been doing this. What action could they have taken earlier in the semester to prevent this situation?
What is a Team Expectations Agreement
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In the reading, these two key guidelines for building successful teams are listed.
Don’t isolate at-risk minority students. Members should be diverse in ability level and able to meet outside of class
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These three factors of student evaluation ensure that the group product meets expectations, students each played a role in developing the product, and students comprehend all the elements of the project.
What are team output, individual contributions, and individual understanding?
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This method of wrapping up a group project provides a way to share the work with other students in the class, other members of the university community, and/or future students in the class, providing examples of effective group work.
What is displaying group projects (in person or online)?