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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

assessing teamwork and other soft skills involved in multi-disciplinary PBLteams. Plumb and Sobeck[10] put together a framework for developing assessment tools. Theyurge instructors to develop a rubric or protocols to track performance over time. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 163 Teamwork in PBL is a unique case in that the teams are usually working on moredifficult, time consuming problems. When PBL is used students achieve desirable

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Paul Blowers

communication skills. These skills can be strengthened in students bysuggesting they participate in writing workshops, become student ambassadors or tour guides, orthrough tutoring other students. Teamwork is another "soft" skill expected in students.Encouraging students to join clubs and move into officer positions over time allows them tobuild these skills in addition to any team based projects that may be required of students in theclassroom. Through extracurricular activities students will also gain a better appreciation of howto learn independently, how to be flexible, and how to be persistent.There are some gatekeeper assessments used for controlling student access to some opportunitiesafter graduation. Students must have a resume for graduate

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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