Developing Teamwork Skills among First Year Chemical Engineering Students using Cooperative Problem-Based Learning in “Introduction to Engineering” Course
Developing Teamwork Skills among First Year Chemical Engineering Students using Cooperative Problem-Based Learning in “Introduction to Engineering” Course
Samsuri N., Yusof K., Jumari N., Zakaria Z., Hassan H., Che Man S., 2017, Developing Teamwork Skills among First Year Chemical Engineering Students using Cooperative Problem-Based Learning in “Introduction to Engineering” Course, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 56, 1105-1110.
This study was conducted to investigate the development of teamwork skills among first year chemical engineering students using Cooperative Problem-Based Learning in “Introduction to Engineering” course. A pre and post-test questionnaire using Team Assessment Tool (TAT) established by Moore and colleagues was administered to 52 first-year chemical engineering undergraduates. This instrument is useful to measure individuals’ rate on team’s performance using 24 Likert-scale items. The main constructs for this instrument consist of interdependency, potency, goal-setting and learning. The descriptive analysis provides the mean, standard deviation and frequency to see the significance of the pre and post-test results. The paired sample t- test was used to determine the significant differences of teamwork level between at the beginning and end of the course. The results from paired sample t-test shows that there was significant increment (p < 0.05) for teamwork in its constructs like interdependency, potency, goal-setting and learning. This shows that the students have developed teamwork skills after undergoing the “Introduction to Engineering” course.
