Li, R., & Bill, V., & Paredes, I., & Bringardner, J. (2023, June), Data-driven Strategy for Maintaining an Effective Team Collaboration in a First-year Engineering Course  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42873

\bibitem{asee_peer_42873}
  Li, R., \& Bill, V., \& Paredes, I., \& Bringardner, J. (2023, June), \emph{Data-driven Strategy for Maintaining an Effective Team Collaboration in a First-year Engineering Course}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42873

Rui Li, Victoria Bill, Ingrid Paredes, and Jack Bringardner.  "Data-driven Strategy for Maintaining an Effective Team Collaboration in a First-year Engineering Course".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42873 Internet.  04 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_42873}
  Rui Li, Victoria Bill, Ingrid Paredes, and Jack Bringardner.
  "Data-driven Strategy for Maintaining an Effective Team Collaboration in a First-year Engineering Course".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42873 Internet.  04 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - In this experience-based practice paper, peer-to-peer evaluation was used to improve students’ team-based learning experience. For the future workforce, the ability to collaborate well in multidisciplinary teams is a highly valued professional skill. Many educational institutions have implemented project-based learning to develop students’ teamworking skills. One of the top challenges is to manage the potential conflicts after team formation. Although constructive 
conflict may increase team productivity according to Tuckman, conflicts were viewed as negative and the primary cause for dysfunctional teams (Tuckman, 1965). A critical first step for first-year students to achieve team success is to understand what types of negative conflicts could emerge, as well as training to understand how to cope with and/or resolve the conflicts. The research question of this study is: How could course instructors effectively use peer evaluations to guide first-year students on resolving negative conflicts? 

In a large private institution, six hundred first-year engineering students participate in free-choice open-ended semester-long projects annually. The primary aim is to allow students to explore, prototype, and refine possible solutions to tackle real-world problems through project-based, collaborative learning. As the teams may have issues such as interpersonal relationships, mismatched schedules, task assignment, and leadership responsibilities, an effective tracking platform is required to manage more than 70 teams per semester. CATME (Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness) peer evaluations consist of two parts: quantitative rating as well as written confidential comments to the instructor and shared peer-to-peer comments. 

CATME highlights potential conflicts based on self-adjustment factors. This study aims to categorize the conflicts by training a text classifier. Firstly, all the comments were filtered to identify negative comments by sentimental analysis. The negative comments were then categorized into major issues mentioned by the Lencioni Model: lack of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability; inattention to results. A detailed intervention guideline would also be provided in this study. A mixed method analysis was used to evaluate the impact of instructors’ interventions.

AU  - Rui Li
AU  - Victoria Bill
AU  - Ingrid Paredes
AU  - Jack Bringardner
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Data-driven Strategy for Maintaining an Effective Team Collaboration in a First-year Engineering Course
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--42873
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