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INTRA-GROUP CONFLICT AND STUDENT TEAM’S PERFORMANCES IN DESIGN PROJECT
Ito, Akira; Taoka, Yuki; Saito, Shigeki
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Year:
2024
Editor:
Yong Se Kim; Yutaka Nomaguchi; Chun-Hsien Chen; Xiangyang Xin; Linna Hu; Meng Wang
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Series:
Other endorsed
Institution:
Institute of Science Tokyo
Page(s):
143-151
Abstract:
In recent years, design projects have been held in various educational settings. Students take project-based learning (PBL) courses to learn design approaches and mindsets. Even though students act in the same settings, team performances vary, and researchers have been trying to reveal the differences. Although support for student teams is required, there is a lack of understanding of the team’s level activities in a design project and a good way to grasp the student team’s status. To bridge these gaps, this study proposes using a questionnaire for perceived intra-group conflict to monitor student teams. Therefore, this paper aims to understand the relationship between dynamic patterns of intra-group conflict and the student team’s performance in a design project held as PBL at a university. Three types of conflict (task, relationship, process) were measured weekly with a questionnaire. The results revealed the difference between well-performed and not well-performed teams in task and relationship conflict. In the task conflict, not well-performed teams showed extremely high values at some points, while values of good teams moved moderately. In relationship conflict, not well-performed teams showed higher values than good teams. In process conflict, there were no significant differences, possibly because of the fixed schedule of the course. This research is the first step to using dynamic conflict patterns to monitor the team’s condition, and further data collection and analysis are required to make them more credible.
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