Work in progress- rubric for assessing student-led teams: students speak out

Abstract

This paper reports on a research project that set out to uncover ways in which senior level Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) students measure group behaviors and teamwork dynamics. The research raised such important questions as: What behaviors will the senior OLS students identify as group behaviors? What will the students identify as teamwork behaviors? How will the students measure or assess the effectiveness of these behaviors? In order to answer the aforementioned questions, a focus group of OLS seniors was created and allowed to compile their own list of behaviors deemed necessary to measure teamwork dynamics. Using this list, the students were instructed to develop a rubric to measure teamwork dynamics. The results were then compared to relevant literature, specifically Hoegl and Gemuenden's Teamwork Quality Construct (TWQ) which measures the quality of teamwork collaboration