EDUC 30 Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Likert Scale, Virtual Learning Environment, Team Effectiveness
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Learning teams in high education for collaborative assignments isn"t always affective. Results of this study: importance of shared mental models, mutual performance monitoring helped, interpersonal trust crucial to make shared mental models. Also learning teams in higher education usually deal with things that are practical instead of theoretical focus on task aspects of performance instead of team aspects. Belief: students learn through discussion, argumentation debate > deeper understanding, deep learning, conceptual change. Collaborative learning can use technology with it when learning teams partly or exclusively communicate with each other online. Effective learning teams: those that want to achieve deep learning and conceptual change together. How team effectiveness determined: quality of team outcomes, quality of team"s performance, perceived satisfaction of needs of individual team members. Team effectiveness also depends on factors like: team formation, team members" abilities/characteristics, role assignment within a team, decision making strategies, team leadership, interdependency, commitment towards team and task.
