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Direct linkPilhyoun Yoon; Sangsun Han; Kibum Kim – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study is based on the hypothesis that group cohesion and efficacy have significant effects on the academic performance of individuals in online (virtual) education environments no less than in-person education environments. To that end, this study explores the effectiveness of group activities in a virtual classroom environment using VC…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Cooperative Learning, Group Behavior, Group Activities
Diana Maguire; Yavuz Keceli – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Instructors of college level business courses utilize group assignments to stress the importance of collaborative work in professional organizations for students. How instructors determine team formation, whether assigning students to groups or allowing students to form their own groups, could impact the effectiveness of the group regarding their…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Group Activities, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork
Tim M. Benning – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Reducing free-riding is an important challenge for educators who use group projects. In this study, we measure students' preferences for group project characteristics and investigate if characteristics that better help to reduce free-riding become more important for students when stakes increase. We used a discrete choice experiment based on 12…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Activities, Student Participation, Student Attitudes
Daniel, Sarah R.; Jordan, Michelle E. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Working in collaborative groups has been shown to have beneficial outcomes; however, these benefits are linked to the quality of group member interactions. "Heedful interrelating," which entails interacting with sensitivity to the task at hand while paying attention to how one's actions affect overall team functioning, is theorized to be…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Mixed Methods Research, Metacognition
Hall, David; Buzwell, Simone – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The increase in popularity of group work in higher education has been accompanied by an increase in the frequency of reports of students not equally contributing to work within the groups. Referred to as "free-riders", the effect of this behaviour on other students can make group work an unpleasant experience for some. Of most…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Surveys, Higher Education
French, Kimberly A.; Kottke, Janet L. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Multilevel modeling is used to examine the impact of teamwork interest and group extraversion on group satisfaction. Participants included 206 undergraduates in 65 groups who were surveyed at the beginning and end of a requisite term-length group project for an upper-division university course. We hypothesized that teamwork interest and both…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Teamwork, Participant Satisfaction, Group Dynamics
