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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.6.2543

Teaching Method using Job Assignment as a Solution on the Adverse Effects of Peer Evaluation in Team-based Learning  

Kim, Sang-Kyun (Department of Industrial Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.6, 2011 , pp. 2543-2547 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper suggests a new method for team-based learning which is focusing on the individual job assignment to solve the possible problems of free riders, dysfunctional conflicts, and hostility among students. Especially, it examines that if a method using job assignment could reduce the adverse effects of peer evaluation. This study was executed during one semester. Each team was organized with seven members and an independent job among seven different jobs was assigned to each member. At the end of the semester, it was examined that if individual job assignment had solved the possible problems of free riders, dysfunctional conflicts, and hostility among students. Finally, this study found that a new method of team-based learning using a job assignment lessened a problem of free riders, and reduced dysfunctional conflicts and hostility among students comparing with the peer evaluation method. The suggested method in this paper, which focuses on the job assignment of team project, could improve the efficiency of team-based learning in education course.
Keywords
Team-based Learning; Job Assignment; Peer Evaluation; Free Rider;
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