Fair Assessment of Contribution and Process in Student Team Projects

Devlin, Marie; Marshall, Lindsay; Phillips, Chris

doi:10.28945/3656

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“…As higher education providers have an obligation to prepare future employees (i.e. students) to meet the demands of the highly competitive knowledge-based work environment (McLaughlin & Daspit, 2016;Pessoa, Miller, & Kaufer, 2014), team-based activities have become common practice in most higher education undergraduate programs (Devlin, Marshall, & Phillips, 2017). This might be because working in a team provides an opportunity for students to learn a greater variety of skills (Hansen, 2016) which include critical reasoning, creative thinking, responsibility, and communication (French & Kavanagh, 2015).…”

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Virtual Research Teams to Develop EFL Students' Research and Academic Writing Skills

2020

مجلة کلية التربية - جامعة المنوفية

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The present study explored the effect of virtual research teams on EFL students' research and academic writing skills. As research and academic writing are related and overlapping, one test was devised to measure them both. Two groups of EFL students: a control group (n=31) and an experimental group (n=33) were pretested in research and academic writing skills to insure that the two groups are equivalent. For a whole semester, participants of the control group were creating their research papers individually while participants in the experimental group used virtual research teams to create theirs. After the intervention was completed, both groups were posttested in research and academic writing skills. An independent samples t-test revealed a statistically significant difference between the means of scores of the two groups in the research and academic writing skills posttest in favor of the experimental group. Therefore, it was concluded that virtual research teams can be used to improve EFL students' research and academic writing skills.

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Virtual Research Teams to Develop EFL Students' Research and Academic Writing Skills

2020

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“…This can rely on the supervising teacher or can be achieved through peer assessment among team members. An insight about the last option is provided by Devlin et al (2016), where two methodologies for peer assessment within a software design PBL are presented, discussed and compared.…”

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From PBL to innovation: a decennial case-study from an HPV student team

Baldissera

Delprete

2020

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Purpose The implementation of project-based learning (PBL) activities in the curricula of engineering students has become a consolidated method to improve their skills. The purpose of this paper is to share the experience acquired by the authors from a decennial case-study on a student team PBL activity focused on design and development of human-powered vehicles (HPVs). A review of the project evolution, boundary constraints and management choices could provide inspiration and suggestions to faculty staff that would like to set-up similar experiences for engineering students in their universities. Design/methodology/approach A student team was funded by the authors in 2008 to gather engineering students interested in design and construction of HPVs. In the past decade, the team has grown from 10 up to 60 students enrolled per year and stimulated to develop a range of HPV designs for sports and mobility. The project management evolved as a consequence to com ply with the growing ambitions of the group and complexity of the goals. Findings A thorough analysis of factors contributing to the success of the project led to identification of the key factors to increase student participation: persistence of the faculty staff is essential, attending competitions and challenges increases students’ recruitment and formal recognition of the activity through credits and the implementation of intermediate assessment steps increase the active participation rate. Bigger teams reduce the negative impact of recruits eventually abandoning the project in an early stage. Ambitious goals keep students motivated for longer periods and enable a virtuous circle by transferring enthusiasm and knowledge to new members. Research limitations/implications The activity is analyzed starting from a subjective experience perspective and some of the findings/conclusions may be not applicable in a different context. However, such review can suggest strategies on the long-term period to create similar conditions elsewhere. Social implications In the last part of the paper, it is pointed out how PBL projects can provide a fertile ground for innovation and lead to patents and development of new products aiming at the market. Originality/value This study contributes to provide an insight view of how a student team PBL activity can grow over a decade if guided by faculty staff.

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Badges for Peer Assessment of Teamwork in Organized Education

Kubincová

Sunikova

Homola

2019

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Fair Assessment of Contribution and Process in Student Team Projects

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Virtual Research Teams to Develop EFL Students' Research and Academic Writing Skills

Virtual Research Teams to Develop EFL Students' Research and Academic Writing Skills

From PBL to innovation: a decennial case-study from an HPV student team

Badges for Peer Assessment of Teamwork in Organized Education

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