Thank you Gary! That is a great help.
Matt
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Gary Kapelus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Hi Matt
> Here is a link to the full article by the same group that subsequently
> appeared in American journal of pharmaceutical education 72(5):103, 2008 Oct
> 15
> http://www.ajpe.org/view.asp?art=aj7205103&pdf=yes
>
> GK
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> From: Team-Based Learning on behalf of Matt Barclay
> Sent: Thu 15/07/2010 3:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Objective evidence that TBL enhances student performance.
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>
> Does anyone know where to find the full text of the Letassy article (from
> the bibliography)?
>
> Letassy, Nancy., Medina, Melissa., Stroup, Jeffrey., Fugate, Susan. and
> Britton, Mark. "The Impact of Team-Based Learning (TBL) on Student and
> Course Outcomes Compared to Lecture Methods" Paper presented at the annual
> meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Disney's Yacht
> & Beach Club Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Jul 14, 2007 <Not
> Available>. 2010-07-15 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p196136_index.html
> >
>
> I can only find the abstract. Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Sweet, Michael S <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> Francis,
>
> The one I usually use is: Watson, W. E., Michaelsen, L. K., &
> Sharp, W. (1991). Member competence, group interaction and group
> decision-making: A longitudinal study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 76(6),
> 801-809.
>
> That said, it has some limitations:
>
> 1) It is not comparative to other forms of instruction
> 2) It was conducted before the introduction of the IF-AT
> 3) It's getting a little long in the tooth
>
> Educational interventions are notoriously difficult to assess in
> hard, objective ways. The variables out of one's control in a real
> classroom setting generate too many competing hypotheses to explain
> measurement results. Aspects of teacher personality, student population,
> school culture, course content, even the physical layout of the classroom
> all have powerful effects on the long-term experience of instruction. Add
> to that the fact that TBL leverages the power of group development over
> time, and you can't really get what you need with a cross-sectional,
> correlational survey study. Ya gotta go longitudinal.
>
> Even before TBL came along, research into "cooperative learning" has
> been a mixed bag--only in its accumulation did it become increasingly
> persuasive. When meta-analyses of many studies start popping up with
> positive results, that's when one can feel pretty confident in claiming
> hard, objective benefits.
>
> The need for this accumulation is why we have the Scholarship
> committee in the TBL Collaborative and why we are adding a Scholarship track
> to the annual meeting.
>
> All that said, some juicy article might have slipped by under my
> radar--does anyone have a better answer for Francis?
>
> -M
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Francis Jones [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 7:30 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Objective evidence that TBL enhances student performance.
>
>
> Hello
>
> I use TBL in geophysics and related courses, and am an avid fan for
> a
> variety of reasons. However I would like to find a few key
> references
> which show objective evidence that teams (or TBL) result in better
> student performance than more traditional teaching strategies.
>
> I do know of the bibliography at
> http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/?page_id=21
> and at least two of those are excellent, and I do have two of the
> Michaelsen books. But I was hoping someone could help me find papers
> with recent, hard experimental or empirical evidence of learning
> gains
> that are better than other teaching strategies, rather than articles
> which focus on anecdote, or implementation case histories.
>
> Many thanks in advance for the advice - Francis.
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