The Effect of Preferred Leadership Role and Preferred Team Leadership Structure on Students’ Perception of Team Processes and Outcome

Beigpourian, Behzad; Ebrahiminejad, Hossein; Ohland, Mathew; Ferguson, Daniel

doi:10.1109/fie43999.2019.9028453

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“…Suffice to say, that this subject has received considerable attention from within the engineering discipline (e.g. Kendall, et al, 2018;Beigpourian, et al, 2019).…”

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Opportunities for the development of professional skills for undergraduate civil and environmental engineers

Murray

Douglas

2022

European Journal of Engineering Education

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Employability and skills development are contemporary issues in higher education. For vocationalprofessional disciplines such as engineering, the signature pedagogy directs teaching and learning towards acquiring scientific knowledge. Engineering employers have called for graduates to be more work-ready and to be trained in team-working, communication and other professional skills. These skills can be developed and assessed within curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular settings. We consider how a sample of undergraduate civil engineers (N=58) perceive the contribution of the above activities on the development of six professional skills (Problem-solving; Planning; Leadership; Teamworking; Self-confidence; Resilience). Embedding these skills within curricular activities offers the greatest potential for helping all students improve their employment prospects. Finally, we make suggestions for improving the deployment of professional skills in our four undergraduate programmes, and in higher education institutions in general.

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“…Suffice to say, that this subject has received considerable attention from within the engineering discipline (e.g. Kendall, et al, 2018;Beigpourian, et al, 2019).…”

Section: Curricular Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opportunities for the development of professional skills for undergraduate civil and environmental engineers

Murray

Douglas

2022

European Journal of Engineering Education

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“…Showing you value their feedback by incorporating their ideas into the program will also drive their self‐motivation (Svinicki, 2004). Enabling students to lead and evaluate each other within the program will also help them feel an integral part of the leadership development activities (Beigpourian et al., 2019). Students can lead leadership development discussions, act as mentors to newer participants, or become project leads.…”

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The unseen work of establishing engineering leadership development initiatives

Melvin

Bowles

Steele

2022

New Drctns Student Lead

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Automatic Assessment and Identification of Leadership in College Students

2022

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As one of the 21st Century skills, fostering leadership competencies in college students has been a focus of research in the behavioral education field. While leaders are expected to have general leadership traits such as communication and resource management, leading teams in particular expertise areas requires additional skills specifically tailored to the tasks involved. For example, in information technology (IT), the roles of leaders are different from those in other non-IT fields due to the characteristics of IT projects. IT leaders, in particular, are required to have not just managerial and interpersonal skills but also necessary technical and practical capabilities. Understanding the key elements that contribute to the emergence and development of student leaders necessitates the ability to assess and recognize leadership in college students. However, current approaches for measuring leadership qualities entail administering questionnaires, which have coverage constraints and may mislabel future leaders if the survey is administered too early in a student's educational phase, when their leadership talents may not have emerged yet. Addressing this problem, this paper introduces LAIGA, a machine learning-based framework for automatically and passively assessing and identifying leaders in college students from their academic profiles and behavior in the learning management system (LMS). The proposed technique can capture students' actions that indicate general leadership qualities and technical competence as evidenced by their academic performances. Specifically, we address two problems: leadership assessment and leader identification tasks. A case study of senior-year college students in the IT major is used to validate the proposed method, yielding 5.87% MAPE in the leadership assessment task and 83.2% F1 in the leadership identification task. Furthermore, the results also show that the proposed method can forecast leadership assessment and identification after graduation, knowing as little as students' information during their first year of study. The findings of this study not only shed light on the ability to use machine learning technologies to automatically assess and identify leadership in college students but also allow educational organizations to understand factors that help develop leadership skills and design mechanisms that promote the growth of student leaders. The proposed method is highly generalizable to other fields of study, as long as students' grades and LMS activities are available. INDEX TERMS Student Leadership, Assessment and Identification, Machine Learning I. INTRODUCTIONA S team efforts are often necessary to tackle increasingly complex challenges, leadership is inherently among essential professional and interpersonal skills to thrive in globally competitive environments. Especially in the IT field, where a software project is typically composed of practi-tioners that have diverse roles, such as project leaders (i.e., assignees or task managers), developers, testers, and peerre...

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The Effect of Preferred Leadership Role and Preferred Team Leadership Structure on Students’ Perception of Team Processes and Outcome

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Opportunities for the development of professional skills for undergraduate civil and environmental engineers

Opportunities for the development of professional skills for undergraduate civil and environmental engineers

The unseen work of establishing engineering leadership development initiatives

Automatic Assessment and Identification of Leadership in College Students

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