Measuring teamwork competence development in a multidisciplinary project based learning environment

Abstract

Nowadays the development of teamwork competence is a key issue in several contexts. It is highly valued both in educational institutions and in business. However, measuring how it is acquired is a difficult task and specially when it is not developed in a traditional classroom context. In this paper authors have explored the evaluation of teamwork competence acquisition during the development of projects by teams with members coming from different contexts. These members have different knowledge, skills and not the same way to work. In addition, there is not a teacher continuously checking what they are doing or not. Given this context, and to guarantee the success of these multidisciplinary projects and evaluate teamwork competence development, several methodologies were studied. CTMTC methodology was adapted and complemented with other tools in order to check if it can work in this specific context. The aim of this adaption is that the methodology allows measuring individually and as group teamwork acquisition in multidisciplinary contexts. The methodology was successfully applied in an experiment and it was possible to see that it works properly although some improvements can still be done.