Resumen de A checklist to diagnose teamwork in engineering education
Jensine Paoletti, Tiffany M. Bisbey, Denise L. Reyes, M.A. Wettergreen, Eduardo Salas
Teamwork is increasingly being acknowledged as a necessary part of the engineering workplace, therefore engineering educatorsmay feel a responsibility for teaching teamwork skills to students. Engineering educators cannot improve their students’ teamworkskills without first being able to practically diagnose the students’ strengths and weaknesses. The present paper focuses ontranslating team science to a useful checklist for engineering educators to monitor their students’ teamwork skills. A qualitativedata-sorting analysis of 286 behaviors from 88 interviews resulted in the present checklist, which is broken into six components ofteamwork processes and emergent states. The checklist details effective and ineffective team-wide or team member behaviors insuch teamwork categories as communication, cognition, coordination, coaching, cooperation, and conflict. While not formallyvalidated, the checklist is empirically derived and in-line with the literature on team performance. This tool will allow educators touncover what teamwork components require further skill development in their students’ project-based learning courses.
