Wei, S., & Mehrabi, A., & Tan, L., & Ohland, M. W. (2023, June), Revisiting Tuckman’s Team Development Model in First-year Engineering Multicultural Teams  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44145

\bibitem{asee_peer_44145}
  Wei, S., \& Mehrabi, A., \& Tan, L., \& Ohland, M. W. (2023, June), \emph{Revisiting Tuckman’s Team Development Model in First-year Engineering Multicultural Teams}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44145

Siqing Wei, Amirreza Mehrabi, Li Tan, and Matthew W. Ohland.  "Revisiting Tuckman’s Team Development Model in First-year Engineering Multicultural Teams".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44145 Internet.  10 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44145}
  Siqing Wei, Amirreza Mehrabi, Li Tan, and Matthew W. Ohland.
  "Revisiting Tuckman’s Team Development Model in First-year Engineering Multicultural Teams".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44145 Internet.  10 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Tuckman’s team development model is a framework to guide team training and intervention along five stages of group development: forming, norming, storming, performing, and adjourning. However, Tuckman’s model may have caveats when used as a guiding theoretical or conceptual framework to investigate student team experiences, especially in their first year, given their unique circumstances. Based on evidence collected from students in first-semester engineering foundation courses, we argue that the teaming stages are not discrete and linear but convoluted and likely iterative. As case studies, this project conducted semi-structured interviews with first-year engineering students from a summer session to better improve our understanding of teammate interaction. The interview questions were constructed following the stages and associated features of Tuckman’s team development model. Within each stage of group team development, we focused on soliciting significant milestones and key events from the participants. We also attempted to understand the role of students with multicultural backgrounds in the team and how they influence the dynamics. Our results echo the criticism of Tuckman’s model – that student teamwork experiences cannot be aligned with the five linearly prescribed stages. For example, students reported they might never experience conflicts in the storming stage. After presenting our findings on students’ experiences of team development, we will provide a critique of Tuckman’s model and offer suggestions on how to use it to guide further teamwork studies for researchers and instructions for practitioners.

AU  - Siqing Wei
AU  - Amirreza Mehrabi
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AU  - Matthew W. Ohland
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
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TI  - Revisiting Tuckman’s Team Development Model in First-year Engineering Multicultural Teams
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