Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Teamwork in Higher Education

Setting Priorities, Using Evidence-Informed Practices, and Avoiding Pitfalls
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58134-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

This guide will help instructors better understand the skills that underlie effective teamwork, offer strategies for structuring group projects, and provide advice on imparting the knowledge and support that students need to develop highly functional, advanced teamwork skills.

Even instructors with a great deal of experience in structuring collaborative learning projects may recognize the gap that exists between their current efforts in providing students with teamwork experiences and effectively training students’ teamwork skills. By drawing on literature from the fields of organizational teamwork and teamwork pedagogy in higher education, the authors identify the processes associated with effective teamwork, relate these processes to teamwork in student teams, and distill and organize strategies for developing students’ teamwork knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Featuring evidence-informed tools, case studies, and best practices, this highly practical text provides everything higher education instructors need to target and advance their students’ teamwork competencies while maximizing the learning benefits of peer collaboration.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Cynthia G.

Babik, Iryna

Landrum, R. Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: What is Teamwork, Why Does Teaching it Matter?

1: Why Develop Students’ Teamwork Skills?

2: What is Teamwork in the College Classroom and When to Use It

3: The Challenges of Group Work and Teaching Teamwork Skills

PART II: Strategies and Approaches for Teaching Teamwork

4: Designing Successful Teamwork Interventions

5: Establishing Viable Teams

6: Optimizing Student Teamwork

7: Addressing Other Relevant Issues in Student Teams

8: Virtual Teams

PART III: Assessing Teamwork Outcomes: Understanding When Our Efforts Are Successful

9: Considerations in Assessing Teamwork

10: Approaches to Assessing Teamwork Competency

11: Tools for Assessing Teamwork Skills

PART IV: Epilogue

12: What’s Next For Teamwork

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia G. Campbell is Associate Professor of Psychological Science at Boise State University, USA.

Iryna Babik is Assistant Professor of Psychological Science at Boise State University, USA.

R. Eric Landrum is Professor of Psychological Science at Boise State University, USA.