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Megan Friesen – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2024
The purpose of this case study was to understand how attending an undergraduate academic conference contributes to a student's sense of belonging, not only within their institution but also in the larger academic community. This research was informed by the literature on club participation in conferences and faculty/student connections. Through…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Honor Societies, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Nipp, Mary Beth; Palenque, Stephanie Maher – Journal of Instructional Research, 2017
The thought of group work, or CLC Groups often strikes fear and loathing in the hearts and minds of both students and instructors. According to Swan, Shen, and Hiltz (2006) collaborative work presents the possibilities of many difficulties including a largely unequal contribution of group participants, an inability of the students to manage the…
Descriptors: Success, Teamwork, Educational Strategies, Best Practices
Fender, C. Melissa; Stickney, Lisa T. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Group and team class decision-making activities often focus on demonstrating that "two heads are better than one." Typically, students solve a problem or complete an assessment individually, then in a group. Generally, the group does better and that is what the students learn. However, if that is all such an activity conveys, then a…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Cooperative Learning, Participative Decision Making
Harris, Garth; Bristow, Dennis – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2016
When tasked with group projects, students often struggle with teamwork and tend to overlook the importance of group self-regulation and its role in effective collaborative work. The pedagogy was implemented in semester long university level new product development courses. The pedagogy illustrates how educators can use student generated weekly…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Student Projects, Group Dynamics, Innovation
Lane, Kathleen Lynne – Education and Treatment of Children, 2017
For many years people have discussed the research-to-practice gap in education. Recently, increased attention has been devoted to creating opportunities for practitioners and researchers to engage in highly collaborative partnerships from design to implementation to dissemination (e.g., Institute for Education Sciences, 2016). In this article, we…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Inquiry, Theory Practice Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Hendry, Gillian; Wiggins, Sally; Anderson, Tony – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Research has shown that educators may be reluctant to implement group work in their teaching due to concerns about students partaking in off-task behaviours. However, such off-task interactions have been shown to promote motivation, trust, and rapport-building. This paper details a study in which student groups were video recorded as they engaged…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Problem Based Learning, Tutorial Programs, Teaching Methods
Kamau, Caroline; Spong, Abigail – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Faulty group processes have harmful effects on performance but there is little research about intervention protocols to pre-empt them in higher education. This naturalistic experiment compared a control cohort with an inducted cohort. The inducted cohort attended a workshop, consultations, elected a leader and used tools (a group log and group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Protocol Analysis, Cohort Analysis
DiMartino, Catherine; Thompson, Eustace – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2016
This case tells the story of a failed public-private partnership. It illustrates how stakeholders, encouraged by the current political context, rushed into a partnership without establishing a basis for mutual understanding and expectations. As a result of this hasty arrangement, questions emerged over who ultimately controlled decisions related…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Public Sector, Private Sector
Rienties, Bart; Johan, Novie; Jindal-Snape, Divya – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Although many international students experience transitional issues, most research assumes these issues will disappear over time. Using principles of social capital theory, this study addressed whether after three years of study students were able to build multi-national and host social capital links. In this quantitative study of 81 students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Social Theories, Foreign Students
Curseu, Petru L.; Pluut, Helen – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Collaborative learning has important group-level benefits, yet most studies in higher education only focus on individual benefits of collaborative learning experiences. This study extends these insights by testing a model in which teamwork quality mediates the impact of several compositional differences (gender, nationality and teamwork expertise…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Higher Education, Gender Differences
Cleugh, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The need to belong and connect with others is universal among human beings. Technological advances make connecting and belonging possible via technologies, without face to face interaction. This new ubiquitous way of belonging and connecting is seen in all areas of communication, including work, schools and social environments. Online learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Technological Advancement, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning

Norris, Dwight R.; Niebuhr, Robert E. – Simulation and Games, 1980
Describes a study designed to determine the effects of group cohesiveness on group performance in a management game and, to examine the effects voluntary v assigned group membership has on the cohesiveness of the group. (Author/LLS)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Membership, Group Unity, Higher Education

Stokes, Joseph; And Others – Small Group Behavior, 1983
Dimensions of group self-disclosure, intimacy and immediacy, were examined in two experiments using college student (N=273) subjects who viewed four videotapes of group interactions. Groups in which members made more disclosures about intimate topics were percieved as more cohesive. Higher immediacy, however, was not associated with increased…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Disclosure, Group Dynamics

DeStephen, RoLayne S.; Hirokawa, Randy Y. – Small Group Behavior, 1988
Developed and tested encompassing and utilitarian measure of small group consensus using 48 small groups involving 234 college students. Pilot study of 14 groups and 61 subjects used instrument to test consensus stability over six-week period. Results showed no significant change in consensus levels over that time. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Decision Making, Group Dynamics
Worchel, Stephen; And Others – 1975
In order to examine the conditions that determine when intergroup cooperation will result in increased intergroup attraction, a group of 494 male and female undergraduate students was divided into task groups consisting of eight to twelve individuals. In the first phase of the study, groups were led to believe that they were either competing,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Group Dynamics, Group Unity