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LTERC SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS

Individual learning in engineering team-based pedagogies: building an assessment strategy that supports collaboration

Presenter: Dr Matt Eliot

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Abstract

Team-based pedagogies, such as project-based learning, emulate the workplace by requiring students to collaboratively analyse complex situations and to work together to generate innovative solutions. Traditional approaches to assessing student teams, however, can compromise student collaboration by putting individual students in competition with one another. This presentation will report the efforts to date on an international research project which seeks to investigate strategies for more effectively assessing individual students' learning while maintaining the collaborative atmosphere that is the hallmark of team-based pedagogies. Dr. Prue Howard of CQUniversity is the Project Lead for this research endeavour.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Matt Eliot is the Project Manager/Project Officer for this study which includes academic staff from CQUniversity, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria University, University of Melbourne, and Aalborg University in Denmark. He received his PhD in 2009 from the University of Washington in the US, where he studied Human-Centered Design & Engineering.

Date of Presentation

17 May 2010