ABSTRACT
Significant human accomplishments are often the result of teamwork. Making films, playing symphonies, designing skyscrapers, building bridges, performing heart transplants, conducting space flights, and finding the causes of exotic diseases all involve collaborative teams. Many teaching methods that involve students working together in groups are quite different from what we mean by learning from groups and teams. Proponents of team-based learning argue that it goes beyond cooperative and collaborative learning by using teams to change the nature and structure of a course. Team-based learning is used to develop content knowledge as well as application of content and team skills. Social loafing problems are often associated with the assignment or the task itself. Assessing learning in groups can be tricky because not only are individual and group elements at play but also task objectives and process objectives.
