A Pilot Investigation of Functional Roles on Engineering Student Teams

工科学生团队职能角色试点调查

• 批准号: 0243265
• 负责人: Linda Schmidt
• 金额: $ 10.9万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0243265&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Investigation; Functional; Roles; Engineering

The project team is fast becoming a primary learning environment for engineering students. From the perspective of education, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels. The definition of what factors specifically contribute to a successful team experience in engineering education requires further definition and empirical study. One of the most consistent aspects of the literature on teams is the importance of team roles to successful team functioning. The notion behind the importance of team roles is that certain predictable processes and behaviors must occur if a team is to thrive. Increasing the awareness and training of team members to these roles improves the chances that the appropriate behaviors will occur and the team will meet its goals. This project is an exploratory study seeking to better understand and empirically demonstrate the significance of functional roles on engineering project teams. This study uses a focus group based investigation of a variety of engineering team classes from freshman to seniors. In addition, focus groups of major engineering disciplines, women, minorities, professional engineers, and students who do not persist in an engineering program are being conducted to become aware of individual differences in the team experience and role taking by these diverse constituencies. Additionally, the instructors of the capstone courses are being individually interviewed by the Principle Investigators. If the presence and importance to team functioning and student learning of functional roles is empirically supported, then the pilot study will be followed by a larger scale proposal to create a psychometrically appropriate assessment measure for evaluating student performance in functional roles.

项目团队正迅速成为工程专业学生的主要学习环境。 从教育的角度来看，积极的团队项目经验可以激发学生在更高级别上表现。 哪些因素特别有助于成功的团队在工程教育方面的经验的定义需要进一步的定义和实证研究。 关于团队的文献中最一致的方面之一是团队角色对成功的团队职能的重要性。团队角色重要性背后的概念是，如果团队要壮成长，则必须发生某些可预测的过程和行为。 提高团队成员对这些角色的认识和培训可以提高适当行为的机会，并且团队将实现其目标。 该项目是一项探索性研究，旨在更好地理解和经验证明功能角色在工程项目团队中的重要性。 这项研究使用了基于焦点小组的研究，对新生到老年人的各种工程团队课程。 此外，正在进行主要的工程学科，妇女，少数民族，专业工程师和不坚持工程计划的学生的焦点小组，以意识到这些不同选区的团队经验和角色扮演的个体差异。 此外，主要调查员正在对Capstone课程的讲师进行单独采访。 如果在经验上支持团队功能和学生对功能角色的学习的存在和重要性，那么试点研究将遵循更大的规模建议，以创建一种精神上适当的评估措施，以评估学生在功能角色中的表现。