I have a paper in second round of review that looks at the impact of gender on team and individual performance over 10 years of TBL in introductory microeconomics courses. The results suggest there is a positive relationship between team activity score and female representation on the team only when the team is fifty percent or more female, with no statistically significant impact below that. On the other hand, individual performance on the final exam improves as the percent of females on the team increases only up to just over 50%, suggesting gender balance has a more positive impact on individual (as opposed to team) performance. There was not a statistically significant impact on individual performance between gender balanced teams and all-female teams. So, unfortunately, while I think it’s interesting, I don’t think my research provides a straightforward answer. Teams do better with more females when they’re female majority, individuals do better with more gender balance if you’re talking about male majority to balanced teams. A lot of people don’t like the idea of putting a female alone on a team, but I’ve generally not found it to be an issue. I plan to stick with random assignment and just try to help teams function better when I see a problem in discussions by encouraging everyone to participate and for everyone to recognize the importance of getting everyone to participate. Across the board (all gpa levels), students with higher peer evaluations, usually reflective of their level of participation within the team, perform better on the final exam by at least 2 percentage points per peer evaluation point above average peer evaluation of comparable students. Molly Espey, Professor John E. Walker Dept. of Economics Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 (864) 656-6401 From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of "Bradetich, Judith" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "Bradetich, Judith" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 5:59 PM To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: gender balance in teams Hi, I have the opposite problem – lots of women and few men. I used to try to spread them out, and would feel proud of myself for having one per team, then it dawned on me that some men don’t like to be the only one in a team of women any more than I would want to be one woman in a team of men if I could avoid it, so now I don’t obsess about gender distribution, and use other criteria to sort students. Judi From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of OP McCubbins Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 3:02 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: gender balance in teams Robin, I taught Farm Management and Operations in TBL format while at Iowa State for 7 semesters. This course had a significant imbalance of men and women as well. Although The team formation procedure didn't specifically address this imbalance via the selected questions, the females were typically will distributed throughout teams. The teams worked extremely well across each iteration of these course. 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Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2017, at 13:20, Veldman, Robin G [PH RS] <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi TBLers, This spring I have a class with a significant imbalance between men and women – 9 women and 26 men have enrolled. Any thoughts on whether to spread the women out, bunch them together, or it doesn’t matter? My inclination would be to try to have at least two to a group, but I am curious about what has worked well in other classrooms. Thanks for your thoughts. 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