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TEACHING
TIPS: How to develop students' teamwork skills
Evaluating team work
An example of a rating scale that can be used for evaluating team meetings is as follows:
| Goals and objectives There is confusion about the purpose and the desired outcomes |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Team members understand and agree on goals and objectives |
| Trust and conflict There is little trust among members and conflict is evident |
1 2 3 4 5 |
There is a high degree of trust among members and conflict is dealt with openly and worked through |
| Expression of differences Disagreements produced defensive reactions |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Disagreements did not arouse defensive reactions |
| Leadership One person dominates and leadership roles are not shared |
1 2 3 4 5 |
There is full participation in leadership; leadership roles are shared by members |
| Control and procedures There is little control and there is a lack of procedures to guide team functioning |
1 2 3 4 5 |
There are effective procedures to guide team functioning; team members support these procedures and regulate themselves |
| Utilisation of resources All member resources are not recognised and/or utilised |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Member resources are fully recognised and utilised |
| Interpersonal communication Communications between members are closed and guarded |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Communications between members are open and participative |
| Listening The team members do not listen to each other |
1 2 3 4 5 |
The team members actively listened to each other |
| Flow of communication The discussion required a great deal of backtracking and reorienting |
1 2 3 4 5 |
The discussion moved forward with succeeding points building on previous ones |
| Problem-solving/Decision making The team has no agreed-on approaches to problem solving and decision making |
1 2 3 4 5 |
The team has well-established and agreed-on approaches to problem solving and decision making |
| Experimentation and creativity The team is rigid and does not experiment with how things are done |
1 2 3 4 5 |
The team experiments with different ways of doing things and is creative in its approach |
| Evaluation The team never evaluates its functioning or processes |
1 2 3 4 5 |
The group often evaluates its functioning and processes |
Ratzburg, W.H. Team effectiveness: Meeting evaluation
scale. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on 16 June, 2003.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1650/meetingevaluationform.html
The teacher can help in the evaluation process by:
- Asking team members to report at one-third and two-thirds through the course on:
- What is going well
- What isn't going well - and why
- What needs to be improved in the team processes and performance.
- Having discussions during class times, especially at the end of semester regarding the team processes.
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