Funded LITE Grant Projects: Collaboration and Group Work

Investigating the impacts of reading with a partner on reading anxiety and text comprehension

Creation of a community of practice for collaborative skills as well as well as create a resource set for students and instructors

Examining student and instructor perceptions of Integrated Curriculum Design in collaboration with a Kazakhstan university

Assessing the impact of group work on connectedness as well as study and metacognition skills

Piloting a campus wide course on collaboration and assessing the efficacy

Developing materials for instructors to use in collaborative group work that supports EDI goals

Creating and assessing teamwork training workshops for engineering students

Creation of a teamwork training program to demonstrate the value of such teaching

Interviewing and surveying instructors and students about their teamwork skills and attitudes

Measuring the impact of weekly group modules on group discussion and study habits

Examining the effects of student learning groups on the success and perceptions surrounding their efficacy

Designing a web framework for group projects in large classes and studying its impact on learning

Studying self-assessment of students in a team based interdisciplinary setting

Identifying threshold concepts in organized sport leadership

Instituting supported learning groups for historically difficult courses

Continuing the creation of an open-access intro textbook for Canadian politics though students’ submissions