The Rapid Adoption of SMARTER Teamwork Tools: the System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork

摘要

Determining when and how students learn team skills, and why some students fail to do so, requires complex experimental research and documentation of individual student outcomes. This research requires large numbers of teams and multi-level analysis and is not easy to do, yet recent research shows promise. A recent study showed that students who used a consistent on-line peer evaluation system (a proprietary system at a Canadian university) had higher peer ratings on a subsequent team than students with similar team experiences who had not used the peer evaluation system. Another study showed that peer evaluations made students aware of how their peers perceive them, building self-awareness. A third study showed that using the university's proprietary peer evaluation system made students more confident at rating teammates and improved their ability to communicate performance information to teammates.