| The reasons for offering
team assignments include student, faculty, and learning issues (see other reasons
in the Introduction to Teams). Learning
Issues - Teams come to faculty members with higher-level
questions, which implies that they have resolved the lower-level questions
- Research
on social dependence supports the assertion that positive interdependent groups
produce higher quality results
Student Issues - Allow
students to gain experience working in a team (looks good on a résumé)
- Make
students more comfortable with using teams
Faculty
Issues - Make faculty members in subsequent classes less skeptical
of student abilities
- Grade fewer (50% to 25%) papers
- Have peers
grade with careful guidance some of the above papers
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