Investigating the Relationships of Student Engineering Team Size and Make-up with Project Success and Team Satisfaction
Investigating the Relationships of Student Engineering Team Size and Make-up with Project Success and Team Satisfaction
Academic Year:
2014 - 2015 (June 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015)
Funding Requested:
$3,000.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
This proposal requests assistance for a learning-analytics style investigation of team performance data from the researcher's sections of a team-based, project-based course (Engineering 100) going back to 2007. The goal of the study is to investigate relationships between team make-up and resulting team performance and team satisfaction. Using team performance and satisfaction information from a variety of naturally-occurring teams (about 1200 students on 240 teams, all assigned by instructor), I would like to see whether "best practices" for team formation (avoid stranding minority and female students/ make diverse teams/ etc) are supported in this sample of first-year engineering student teams working on semester-long projects.