Teaching Team-effectiveness in Large Classes

Résumé du livre

Students were asked to provide feedback at the mid-point of the course and to provide their thoughts on the utility of the feedback they received in an end-of-term survey. [...] Feedback originating from the use of the feedback framework was compared to feedback developed from an unstructured feedback prompt to assess the usefulness and effectiveness of the feedback framework. [...] The course is designed as a service-, project- and team-based learning course in which students spend the first half of the 13-week term engaging with communities around the City of Toronto to identify engineering design opportunities they can address, and the second half of the term addressing a subset of opportunities selected by the teaching team and based on those identified in the first half [...] An example of framework feedback is provided in Appendix B, and an example of unstructured feedback is provided in Appendix C. At the end of the course, students in both groups completed the same end-of-term survey on the usefulness of the feedback they received (Appendix D). [...] Since the students had to complete the assessments of their team members for course purposes, as part of a 2% completed/not completed deliverable, there was no additional effort on the part of the students to participate in the study.