Conference and seminar sessions in Group work
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Exploring team formation among students in the UK: A theory of planned behaviour
Presentation at DEE 2025,Group work as Assessments: Perspectives from UK Educators
Presentation at DEE 2025,Developing Employability Skills and Critical Thinking through Interdisciplinary Group Work and Peer Review
Presentation at Northern Economics Network seminars,Group work as assessments: perspectives from UK instructors
Presentation at Birmingham Economics Education Seminars (BEES),The effect of a flipped classroom where students work on exercises in groups during class time
Presentation at DEE 2023,Pedagogical implications of group work as assessments
Presentation at DEE 2023,Enhancing students’ engagement through inclusive team work
Presentation at DEE 2017,The paper is reflecting on the potential to raise students' engagement through ongoing teamwork and class interaction of diverse study groups. We are building thereby on the feedback received from two student cohorts taking a module on the European economy before and after Brexit. The student teams or study groups have been encouraged to research the effects of economic integration or disintegration on individual countries, thus linking theoretical material to real economic developments. The country teams produce reports accessed by peers online, via the university portal, and in advance of related class discussions. Designated study groups facilitate seminar discussions based on their own country reports, with questions prepared by peers in advance of the class. To evaluate the impact of teamwork and peer learning, we survey all students involved in the module across two academic years. We monitor the novelty they perceive in terms of the task, and explore any peer learning along with the methods of communication used by smaller or larger teams. Social networking applications such as WhatsApp or Facebook are found to be by far the most conducive for collaboration towards the completion of these reports. New students’ interaction is cited as most valuable in diverse groups including international students. Finally, preparation of questions to peer reports in advance of class discussions has been highlighted as an asset towards communication skills and critical thinking.
