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10.18260/1-2--41085
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Becky Matz is a Research Scientist on the Research & Development team at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. She directs and supports research projects across CAI’s portfolio of educational technologies. Becky has research experience in assessing the efficacy of software tools that support student learning and success, analyzing quantitative equity disparities in STEM courses across institutions, and developing interdisciplinary activities for introductory chemistry and biology courses.
Mark Mills is a Data Scientist on the Research & Development team at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. He directs and supports data analytics across CAI’s portfolio of educational technologies. Mark has experience in assessing the efficacy of software tools that support student learning and success, analyzing equity disparities in STEM courses across colleges, and developing actionable insights for instructors, departments, and colleges.
Andrew Moffat is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Engineering Education Research unit at the University of Michigan, exploring ways to evaluate the effectiveness of Tandem, an in-house software platform designed to help undergraduate students develop teamwork skills. Andrew has experience in education research and evaluation, having previously worked in the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence at the University of Leeds in the UK. His interests in learning and technology stem from a background in English language teaching.
Madison Jeffrey is a graduate candidate in the University of Michigan's Masters in Higher Education program. With a focus on Management and Organizations, she's interested in ways in which the system of higher education can adapt to become more accessible and equitable to students. She's a research assistant at the University of Michigan's Center of Academic Innovation, where she works with a team of researchers responsible for Tandem, a software that monitors team performance to link students and instructors.
Trevion Henderson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and STEM Education at Tufts University.
Caitlin Hayward is the Associate Director for Research & Development at the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation. She is responsible for managing the educational research portfolio, with a focus on ensuring that our projects are taking advantage of the vast amount of data available to them to inform prioritization, design, and iteration. Caitlin's work focuses on translational research, learning analytics, educational motivation, and gameful pedagogy.
This work-in-progress paper reports on the assessment of an intervention on team communication and decision making processes to see whether such an intervention is related to improvement in the rating of equity of idea contributions. A hierarchical linear model was fit to teamwork data from 3,721 students in 40 courses. We find that students’ reports of equitable idea sharing are actually lower after the intervention than before; we hypothesize that the decreased rating might reflect increased student awareness of inequities rather than a true decrease in equitable idea sharing. This pattern held for most gender and racial groups, with the notable exception of non-binary students, who instead reported greater idea equity post-intervention. Finally, we find that decreases in reported idea sharing were largest when students reported the intervention was “highly relevant” to their team yet “not very helpful”. Keywords: teamwork, team communication, equity, voice safety, voice enactment
Fowler, R., & Matz, R., & Mills, M., & Moffat, A., & Jeffrey, M., & Henderson, T., & Hayward, C., & Sheffield, S. (2022, August), Preliminary analyses (WIP): Patterns in student response to a team communication intervention Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41085
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