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. > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > | Francis Jones, Science Education & Applied Geophysics, > | Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, > | Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences, UBC. > | http://www.eos.ubc.ca/public/people/faculty/F.Jones.html > -------------------------------------------------------------- > NOTE THAT I TRY TO ANSWER EMAILS WITHIN 2-3 business days. >