I hope this message finds you well. I am in George Mason University's industrial-organizational psychology doctoral program, and I am hoping to find a couple of classrooms that utilize team-oriented projects to collect data for my dissertation.  I am interested in understanding various factors that contribute to a team's ability to integrate divergent perspectives (i.e., cognitive disagreements), and TBL seems like a great environment to do so.  

I would hope to contribute to your learning goals as well.  For example, are you interested in learning anything about how to best organize your class's TBL teams to achieve certain outcomes (maximizing information sharing, maximize teamwork capabilities, minimize conflict, etc.)?  Also I would attempt to make data collection as non-invasive and as little of a burden on you and the students as possible.  In fact, I believe most, if not all, could be collected via electronic media.  

Given that I am in the Washington, DC area, it would be ideal to find classes in the general area (Virginia, DC, MD), but I remain open to the idea of working with classes in other parts of the US.  

I'd be very grateful to hear from anyone who might be willing to explore this a bit further.  My email address is [log in to unmask].  

I hope to hear from you.

Thank you,

David Geller