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Harlow, Jason J. B.; Harrison, David M.; Meyertholen, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
We have studied the types of student teams that are most effective for collaborative learning in a large freshman university physics course. We compared teams in which the students were all of roughly equal ability to teams with a mix of student abilities, we compared teams with three members to teams with four members, and we examined teams with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning
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Largent, David L. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
To prepare graduates for today's work environment, they must be immersed in positive (and perhaps negative) small group experiences in their courses, which will in turn provide a basic understanding of how teams form and develop over time. In the fall of 2009, we started exploring how software development teams form and interact in a computer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Group Structure