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
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> Francis Jones [[log in to unmask]]
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> 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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> | Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences, UBC.
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