Development of a teamwork skill scale for engineering students

• Autores: Jiyoung Han
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 36, no. Extra 1 (Parte B), 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Teamwork Assessment in Engineering Education), págs. 483-490
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Engineers have to work with many people, each with various level of knowledge, as a team because most work in the engineeringfield involves complex projects. To teach teamwork skills properly in engineering schools, the teamwork skill levels of studentsshould be assessed. Many professors have measured teamwork skills in their classes, yet they still have questions as to how theycan teach and measure teamwork skills.This study aims to identify teamwork skills and their subordinate areas necessary for engineering students as well as to developthe appropriate scales to measure such skills.To achieve such goals, a literature review and survey were conducted. Teamwork skills and their subordinate areas werereviewed. A survey was administered to 343 students of three engineering schools in the Republic of Korea and a factor analysiswas conducted.The scale was completed with five factors, each of the common and individual skills. Reliability, cooperation, a sense ofresponsibility, listening courteously, and adaptability were selected as the common skills; and for the individual skills, the roles ofleader, innovative executor, mediator, terminator, and judge were suggested. The abilities needed for each role were defined asleadership, problem-solving ability, interpersonal relationship ability, communication ability, and decision-making ability.The components of the teamwork skills that were developed in this study can be used to measure teamwork skills and aspreliminary data for the development of education programs needed to concretely improve the teamwork skills of students.