Enhancing Teamwork Skills Through an Engineering Service-learning Collaboration

Pazos, Pilar; Cima, Francisco; Kidd, Jennifer; Ringleb, Stacie I.; Ayala, Orlando; Gutierrez, Kristie; Kaipa, Krishnanand

doi:10.18260/1-2--34577

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“…Though the SLSCs were aimed at the tribal students to spark an interest in science, this brought out an added benefit of building 21st century skills among the student mentors. Service learning initiatives develop skills, such as cross-cultural understanding, collaboration, communication, and writing, as already reported in the literature. ,− When asked for a self-report on the skills gained through the SLSC, the student mentors responded as shown in Table . The SLSCs have created a marked improvement in the collaboration and adaptability among postgraduate students.…”

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Service Learning Science Camps Among Tribals as a Tool for Capacity Building Among Students – A Step Toward Inclusive Chemistry Education

Augusthian¹,

Lipin²,

Jonathan³

et al. 2022

J. Chem. Educ.

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The tribal communities in South India, especially those in the Wayanad region in the proximity of Kerala state, have low literacy rates and occupy a socio-culturally marginalized status among various demographic clusters in India. The pedagogies employed through mainstream schooling do not appeal to the students in the tribal community, resulting in high dropout rates. Therefore, Madras Christian College, Chennai, has identified tribal communities as an underrepresented group in Indian science education proposing to engage them through “Service Learning Science Camps”. Herein we document our activities as formative assessment through teaching chemistry to tribal school children and consolidate the experiences gained by both the student volunteers and tribal students for prospective research. The program enabled the student mentors to explore their leadership skills while administering the science camps. In addition to this, the camps created a pleasurable environment for learning chemistry for the tribal children and increased their inclination toward science. This exercise helps students to change their perception toward tribals and bridge the gap between them by providing a welcoming and supportive environment for pleasurable learning. We propose these camps as a model to reach out and popularize chemistry among the overlooked communities, simultaneously nurturing the minds of college students toward creating an inclusive future.

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Service Learning Science Camps Among Tribals as a Tool for Capacity Building Among Students – A Step Toward Inclusive Chemistry Education

Augusthian¹,

Lipin²,

Jonathan³

et al. 2022

J. Chem. Educ.

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“…This accelerates the project timeline, saving time and resources compared to individual efforts. (Chowdhury & Murzi, 2019;Kozlowski, 2018;Pazos et al, 2020) Risk Mitigation Collaborative teamwork ensures that multiple experts review and validate designs, reducing the likelihood of errors or oversights that might lead to costly mistakes down the line. (Baker, Day, & Salas, 2006;Salas, Bisbey, Traylor, & Rosen, 2020…”

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Investigating the Challenges of Teamwork for 1st Year Undergraduate Engineering Students

Nweke,

Chaib,

Banner

2023

ECE Official Conference Proceedings

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Literature has shown that the ability to work in teams is one of the most highly coveted skills by engineering employers (Levy & Rodkin, 2016). On the Biochemical Engineering programme at UCL, teamwork is present across the programme curriculum and has seen consistently high levels of positive feedback in annual evaluation surveys. However as the pandemic forced educators to move to the online environment, this resulted in significant implications for how students interacted with each other and engaged with teaching material, which in turn highlighted gaps in staff support. As we move to a blended approach, this project sought to understand the challenges 1st year undergraduate students face with teamwork in remote settings vs. in-person vs. a blend of both, discern any difficulties in teamwork related to inclusivity and gather information on how teaching staff could better support students working in teams for the first time at university. We addressed this with a mixed-method approach consisting of questionnaire design and case study-based workshops with our post-pandemic cohort of students who have experienced in-person, online and blended learning. Results showed that communication and engagement were the most common challenges students faced in remote teamwork settings, specifically related to language barriers and accessibility. The results also highlighted issues with inclusivity related to students who do not have English as a first language. It was also highlighted that there was a need to better address the implementation of adjustments for disabled/neurodivergent students in teamwork settings.

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“…Several previous studies have investigated the impact of task characteristics as an effective means of communication between members involved in group work. For example, Pazos et al (2020) highlighted the potential of increasing individual attraction to the task in keeping the team on track to achieve their goals. The literature showed that task attraction can directly influence users' parasocial interaction (Zheng et al, 2020), which may contribute to individual engagement (Coulson et al, 2012).…”

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Individual Experience and Engagement in Avatar-Mediated Environments: The Mediating Effect of Interpersonal Attraction

Alblehai

2021

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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The application of different virtual reality interventions has been recently gaining interest from researchers and practitioners. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions increased the use of these technologies to help create much value for educators and students. The relationship between individual experience and engagement in avatar-mediated environments has garnered empirical support, but still little is known about the mediating mechanisms underlying this relation. This study investigated the mediating role of interpersonal attraction (e.g., social, physical, and task attraction) in the link between individual experience and engagement in an avatar-mediated learning environment. A total of 112 participants (21–23 years; 73 male and 39 female) participated in online peer learning sessions in Second Life. After controlling for demographic covariates, the results showed that (1) individual experience was positively associated with students’ engagement; (2) social, physical, and task attraction was found to positively mediate the link between experience and engagement. The outcomes from this study provide valuable implications for promoting online learners’ engagement in avatar-mediated environments.

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Enhancing Teamwork Skills Through an Engineering Service-learning Collaboration

Abstract: Her main areas of research interest are collaborative work-structures, virtual teams and team decision-making and performance.

Cited by 10 publications

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Service Learning Science Camps Among Tribals as a Tool for Capacity Building Among Students – A Step Toward Inclusive Chemistry Education

Service Learning Science Camps Among Tribals as a Tool for Capacity Building Among Students – A Step Toward Inclusive Chemistry Education

Investigating the Challenges of Teamwork for 1st Year Undergraduate Engineering Students

Individual Experience and Engagement in Avatar-Mediated Environments: The Mediating Effect of Interpersonal Attraction

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