scholarly journals Fostering Student Awareness of Team Skills: A Participative Team Formation Process for Class Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Gregory Berka ◽  
Amber Greenwood ◽  
Jae Hwan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Formation Process ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Hybrid Process ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Organizational Teams

This essay outlines a participative team formation process for class projects with resources to support instructors in implementing this process. This hybrid process, integrating self-selection and teacher assigned methods, includes four touch points that foster students’ awareness of effective team behaviors and the presence (or absence) of these behaviors within themselves and in team members. The awareness can provide students the foundation for developing team skills—beneficial in both team projects and in organizational teams.

Assessment of Individual Student Performance in Online Team Projects

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Alden
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Team Projects

The use of team projects has been shown to be beneficial in higher education. There is also general agreement that team efforts should be assessed and that the grading ought to represent both (1) the quality of the product developed jointly by the team as well as (2) the degree of participation and quality of contribution by each individual student involved in the group process. The latter grading requirement has posed a challenge to faculty so the question addressed in this paper is “How should individual team members in online courses be assessed for the extent and quality of their contributions to the group project?” To answer this question, four common team member evaluation practices were reviewed and compared to seven criteria representing positive attributes of an assessment practice in an online learning environment. Whereas the Peer Assessment practice received the greatest support in the literature in face-to-face courses, this study that considered the perceptions of graduate faculty and students recommended the Faculty Review practice as the default assessment

The Effects of Expertise and Social Status on Team Member Influence and the Moderating Roles of Intragroup Conflicts

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woonki Hong ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Kwangwook Gang ◽  
Boreum Choi
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Expectation States ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Expectation States Theory ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Do So

Drawing on expectation states theory and expertise utilization literature, we examine the effects of team members’ actual expertise and social status on the degree of influence they exert over team processes via perceived expertise. We also explore the conditions under which teams rely on perceived expertise versus social status in determining influence relationships in teams. To do so, we present a contingency model in which the salience of expertise and social status depends on the types of intragroup conflicts. Using multiwave survey data from 50 student project teams with 320 members at a large national research institute located in South Korea, we found that both actual expertise and social status had direct and indirect effects on member influence through perceived expertise. Furthermore, perceived expertise at the early stage of team projects is driven by social status, whereas perceived expertise at the later stage of a team project is mainly driven by actual expertise. Finally, we found that members who are being perceived as experts are more influential when task conflict is high or when relationship conflict is low. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.

Trust in Virtual Multicultural Teams

2008 ◽  
pp. 1292-1308
Author(s):  
Iris C. Fischlmayr ◽  
Werner Auer-Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Illustrative Case Study

This chapter analyses the phenomenon of trust with regard to its significance for virtual teams. Guided by the existing literature on trust, this chapter presents different kinds of trust and the development of trust over time. The challenges inherent to virtual multicultural teams, thus to working teams, which are geographically dispersed and communicate with the help of electronic media, raise the questions of their consequences on trust. As virtual teams are mostly used in companies operating in different countries all over the world, the different cultural backgrounds of the team members are taken into account as well. To give an example for the relevance of this issue in practice, an illustrative case study on experiences international business students have made during virtual team projects is presented.

Wiki as a Tool of Choice for Students’ Team Assignments

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Živana Komlenov ◽  
Zoran Budimac ◽  
Zoran Putnik ◽  
Mirjana Ivanović
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Formation Mechanisms ◽  
First Year ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Collaborative Activities

This paper presents the results of the empirical research based on the experiences in using wiki as means of introducing collaborative activities in two different courses at the same time – an introductory eBusiness course for the first-year students, as well as the course in software engineering for students at the last year of Computer Science studies. Comparing and contrasting the results accomplished by these two groups of students offer interesting insights in how wiki as a tool can contribute both to the efficiency of the assignment solving process and the transparency and fairness of teamwork evaluation. Students’ opinions and feelings emerging during the work on wiki assignments and in respect to the evaluation of their joint work were also investigated. Finally, attention was paid also to the effect of the applied team formation mechanisms on the final results of team projects.

Project Team Formation Based on Knowledge and Cooperation Degree

2010 ◽  
Vol 44-47 ◽  
pp. 3143-3147
Author(s):  
Xiao Rong Huang ◽  
Shun Sheng Guo ◽  
Li Bo Sun
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Calculation Method ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Formation Model ◽  
Collaborative Model ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Formation Problem

To aim at the project team formation problem, this study proposes a formation model based on knowledge and cooperation degree. The ability of individual member and cooperation degree of team members are considered. In addition ,it presents a way of measuring candidate’s ability about knowledge, and establishes a collaborative model to measure the cooperation degree between team members. Furthermore, a calculation method of knowledge and cooperation degree is proposed, and then a mathematical model is established. Finally it presented a solution base on Genetic Algorithm for this model.

Meeting Corporate Needs: How Technical Writing can Prepare Students for Today's Changing Work Place

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Gerson ◽  
Sharon J. Gerson
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Organizational Teams

How can Technical Writing teachers better prepare students for their careers? Corporations suggest that they want employees who can work together on teams, solve problems, and communicate. This requirement is due to the changing nature of business which is no longer industrial, employing a top-down managerial hierarchy. Today's businesses focus on information and employ a horizontal management which leans heavily on the employee who works in inter-organizational teams. First, we show our students how writing is a problem-solving activity. Next, we emphasize this point by assigning numerous short and long team projects which require problem solving and communication.

scholarly journals Introducing a Cross-Course Teaching Innovation to Enhance Group Project Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark DeFanti
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Research ◽  
Marketing Plan ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
The Many

Marketing educators and students recognize the benefits derived from group assignments. Nonetheless, serious problems that occur frequently in student groups are diminished effort by some free-riding team members or disassociation from the group by lone wolf team members.  In a highly innovative manner, the American Marketing Association’s integrated marketing plan international competition was concurrently adopted by Principles of Marketing, Marketing Research and Advanced Advertising courses in an attempt to leverage the many benefits of team projects while minimizing their drawbacks.

An Analytical Model of Collaboration Between Engineers Working on Team and on Individual Projects

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun Takai
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Team Member ◽  
System Development ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Functional Teams

Collaboration of engineers with diverse technical background such as those found in cross-functional teams has been addressed as a key for successful system development. Similarly, the benefit of team-based-project class is increasingly emphasized in curriculum development. In a team project, however, there is always a temptation for a team member to free-ride on other team members’ efforts (i.e., receive the same credit without contributing to the project). This paper presents an analytical model in which two engineers work on a team project, as well as individually on separate projects. The engineers receive the same performance evaluation on their team project (whether they actually contribute to the project or not), but independent evaluations on their individual projects. This paper uses the model to identify conditions that discourage free-riding and encourage collaboration between two engineers. The results of the analysis and implications to team projects in industry and in curriculum are discussed.

scholarly journals An improved Jaya algorithm with a modified swap operator for solving team formation problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (21) ◽  
pp. 16627-16641
Author(s):  
Walaa H. El-Ashmawi ◽  
Ahmed F. Ali ◽  
Adam Slowik
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Heuristic Algorithms ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Jaya Algorithm ◽  
African Buffalo ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Formation Problem ◽  
Swap Operator

Abstract Forming a team of experts that can match the requirements of a collaborative task is an important aspect, especially in project development. In this paper, we propose an improved Jaya optimization algorithm for minimizing the communication cost among team experts to solve team formation problem. The proposed algorithm is called an improved Jaya algorithm with a modified swap operator (IJMSO). We invoke a single-point crossover in the Jaya algorithm to accelerate the search, and we apply a new swap operator within Jaya algorithm to verify the consistency of the capabilities and the required skills to carry out the task. We investigate the IJMSO algorithm by implementing it on two real-life datasets (i.e., digital bibliographic library project and StackExchange) to evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of proposed algorithm against other meta-heuristic algorithms such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, African buffalo optimization algorithm and standard Jaya algorithm. Experimental results suggest that the proposed algorithm achieves significant improvement in finding effective teams with minimum communication costs among team members for achieving the goal.

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