Dear Molly,
I think it is good that you let people know of your experiences. It is especially useful to know about rejections...
Although teams is not an area in which I have expertise, the entrepreneurship literature addresses team composition and team performance, and that may be a useful starting point for you.
You might like to consider submitting your paper (along the lines that you have described) to the journal Education + Training. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/et
Perhaps we could discuss this further at the TBLC annual conference in Albuquerque in March 2016.
All the best, Peter Balan
University of South Australia, Australia
From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Molly Espey
Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2015 12:30 PM
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Subject: TBL and critical thinking study
I need help in two areas, one general research on teams and individuals and the second on business/general journal outlet for a TBL study.
First, I have a project in progress looking at how the composition of teams (size, gender mix, class level mix, gpa) affects team success on RATs and activities (I do a variety of graded and ungraded activities) and how it impacts individual performance. I have a number of references about team performance and team composition in a variety of environments. What I have added to an earlier version of this analysis is a model for individual performance as a function of team and individual characteristics. What I am interested in picking your brains about is any references on how the composition of teams affects individuals.
Second, I have a paper that was just rejected by the Journal of Economic Education and I'm looking for an alternative outlet. This paper uses a beginning and end of semester survey about students' perceptions of the impact of "the typical college course" and "the use of TBL" in my course on various critical thinking skills. This is a survey that I created and have administered in classes for a number of years. I presented a version of this research at the TBL conference several years ago. The main criticisms of the research are legitimate, that these are students' perceptions, not actual measures of learning gains, and that this is not a standardized quantitative test of critical thinking. This paper could be re-pitched more generally as a measure of the impact of TBL on (students' perceptions of) critical thinking skills, using students in five different economics courses (14 classes overall). One of the reviewers suggested a correlation test between two of my outcome variables as a measurement of the validity of my survey design; I just ran that and the correlation was 0.889 (high correlation=low measurement error). So any ideas for either business oriented or general journal outlets for this research?
Thank you very much in advance.
Molly Espey, Professor
John E. Walker Dept. of Economics
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
(864) 656-6401
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