文档介绍：Teaching and Assessing Teamwork in Engineering puter Science
Robert W. Lingard
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA 91330-8281
ABSTRACT
Teamwork is an identified student e for Engineering puter Science students, but most programs don’t teach students how to work in teams.
Keywords: Teamwork, assessment
1. INTRODUCTION
Although it monly recognized by educators and scholars alike that to be essful in today’s workplace, high levels of teamwork munication skills are necessary, instruction in these areas in Engineering puter Science is minimal, if undertaken at all. During the past four semesters, we have introduced students to the study of group process and have assessed the value of such instruction. In designated sections puter Science 380, "An Introduction to Software Engineering," we provided some specific, but limited instruction in munication and administered the Kolbe A The Kolbe A Index is an instrument that measures conation, or a person’s inherent talent or natural way of doing things and predicts what a person will or will not do, given the freedom to act. Widely used in the corporate world, the Kolbe A Index is valuable method for putting together synergistic teams.
It has long been recognized that engineering puter science students need to munication and collaboration skills. In his 1992 article on "Educating a New Engineer," Peter D