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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Gretchen A. Mosher

develop functional learning teams will also be a focus of the paper.Data on student performance and their feedback on the process will be included in the finalportion of the paper.Benefits of Team-Based LearningResearchers have identified several benefits of TBL for students. These include: benefits tolearning such the ability to tackle tasks of higher complexity, a stronger consideration of diverseperspectives, and a higher order of critical thinking2, 3. Other benefits noted involve studentsocial development. Researchers have observed greater engagement of students, enhancedabilities to collaborate effectively with student colleagues, and more highly developed civicvalues as a result of TBL6. In the science classroom, Carmichael6 noted that TBL

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

) should:1. Pose significant questions that can be answered empirically2. Link research to relevant theory3. Use methods that permit direct investigation of the question4. Provide a coherent and explicit chain of reasoning5. Replicate and generalize across studies6. Disclose research to encourage professional scrutiny and critique11The National Science Foundation has funded engineering education coalitions that have lookedspecifically at teaching of engineering. One was the Center for Advancement of EngineeringEducation (CAEE). Their final report from 2010 states that engineering faculty need to beeducators who are capable of using the research on the student experience. “This involves notonly preparing tomorrow‘s educators with conceptions of