Garcia Souto, Maria del Pilar;
Siefker, Justin;
Odunsi, A;
Truscott, F;
Seatwo, A;
(2024)
Addressing issues related to running and assessment of teamwork in engineering education: Improvements observed when using Individual Peer Assessment of Contribution (IPAC).
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Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of SEFI.
SEFI: Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Teamwork is heavily used and become the norm in Engineering education across all years and disciplines. Academics running such projects/learning activities are well aware of the benefits but also the challenges of such activities, that includes for example the logistics (particularly in large teams), ensuring student engagement, equal opportunities, students training and development, and fair assessment. This paper reviews six different case studies in engineering that represent the pathway taken by students in various engineering degrees at UCL. The paper identifies the main challenges faced by practitioners when running and assessing teamwork and mitigations taken to address them. In particular, we emphasise the benefits of using Individual Peer Assessment of Contribution to teamwork (IPAC), and how it helps to successfully mitigate issues that were encountered otherwise. We believe this paper will be useful for any HE lecturer in engineering (even other fields) that runs teamwork such that they improve or reinforce awareness on these challenges, see how others approach them and the impact of those approaches, potentially giving them either ideas for improvement or confirmation of their own practice. We have combined this paper with a workshop and aim to incorporate a reflection on practices at other institutions and broader range of academics.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Addressing issues related to running and assessment of teamwork in engineering education: Improvements observed when using Individual Peer Assessment of Contribution (IPAC) |
| Event: | SEFI 2024 Educating Responsible Engineers |
| Location: | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Dates: | 2 Sep 2024 - 5 Sep 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.14256949 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14256949 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International |
| Keywords: | Group work, teamwork, assessment, challenges, best practices |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201569 |
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