Hi Judith,
From my perspective, computer skills may be predictive of academic success (I am not familiar with the research, but it makes sense intuitively).
I think you could probably find some data to support regular participation in physical activity as positively correlated with academic success, but participation on varsity athletic teams may behave differently depending on the school, sport, conference, etc..
I would be cautious about computer ownership, since this may end up acting as a proxy for socio-economic status, particularly if your factors disclosed to students.
I teach graduate Social Work courses, so I have a number of course and profession-related factors to draw on. I sometimes use distance between school and place of origin, since it helps to distribute cultural backgrounds and views among teams, which is of great value to Social Work education.
Good luck with your course!
Liz
Liz Winter, Ph.D., LSW
Academic Coordinator and Clinical Assistant Professor
Child Welfare Education for Leadership Program
School of Social Work
University of Pittsburgh
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I am another newbie who will be starting TBL this semester in a class of freshmen and have been thinking about team assets. Since my class is college orientation and information literacy there are not the obvious or traditional assets. I have been thinking about using participation on athletic teams and maybe some basic computer skills or computer ownership. Anyone want to share some ideas on this?
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Judith S. Garrison, M.L.S.
Head of Reference & Instruction
Lane Library
Armstrong Atlantic State University
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