Teamwork is at the heart of the modern workplace, but most students loathe teamwork at university. The presentation highlights common problem zones, and showcases how the problem might be solved using software and insights from occupational psychology.

1. Transforming group work in Higher Education
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2. • essential for student integration
• development of interpersonal and life
skills
• enriches the learning experience
• employers demand team work skills
• Allows tutors to set more challenging
coursework
• reduces the marking and admin
burden
GROUP
WORK
Group workis essential in Higher Education

3. Problems with
Group Work in
Higher Education
• Anxiety from high-performing students
• Frustrating for less integrated students
• Free-riding/ social loafing
• Poor development of transferrable
interpersonal skills
• Little diversity
• Unfair distribution of teams
• Limited inter-group networking
• Academic under-performance
• Failing Groups

4. 1. Lack of Interpersonal skills
Students often lack the skills to effectively work with each
other (they have not received training in collaboration skills)
2.Lack of Process/ Management
Student groups typically have no assigned manager/leader.
They lack processes and support to become effective.
3. Moral Hazard
If all group members automatically receive the same grade,
students are discouraged to contribute strongly.
4. Group formation
The way student teams are formed is problematic (e.g.
students always working with their friends).
4 issues

5. is a practical, easy-to-use web application that helps
students acquire team work skills and addresses
the key issues of group work in Higher Education.
Team-Match EDU

6. 1. Address individual skills gap
• Students complete a short online
profile that helps them develop
their interpersonal skills
• A feedback report improves
students’ understanding of how to
be a constructive team member,
and how to practically contribute to
the success of the team
• Can be completed in advance of
the class by students in their own
time

7. • To ensure a smooth group process,
groups can take advantage of Team
Reports
• Team Reports predict group strengths and
weaknesses by aggregating data from
individual group members in an
anonymous way
• They help student groups to get off to a
smooth start, build trust & teach team
work & leadership skills in a structured,
time effective way
• Students can get a team report for their
group online by themselves, or from the
tutor.
• Easy to use, works across (mobile) devices
2. Enable Team Self Management

8. Team-Mark
In Development
• Peer Assessment enables students to feedback on each
other’s contributions.
• The result is an adjustment factor that can be used to
adjust the group mark for individual performance, making
group work a lot fairer
• Team-Match also allows students to build up a track record
of team projects and positive ratings online. This includes
an optional public facing page that shows achievement/
recommendations in group work
3. Encouraging participation

9. All International
Students
Old-Friends-Stick-
Together
All Top
students
When students form their
own teams...
4. Improve Team formation

10. • Highly homogenous teams: No diversity, always
the same people in the same teams.
• Uneven distribution of teams: Very strong teams,
very weak teams
• Poor development of interpersonal skills
• Limited inter-group networking
• Frustrating team-working experience, especially for
less integrated students
• Failing Groups
Problems with student formed teams

11. • Team-match includes a unique
Group sorter that helps tutors
sort students into effective
teams using Matchmaking
Technology
• Aims...
• achieve a high degree of diversity
in cognitive styles (and team roles)
for each team.
• achieve a balance across the
whole group: All teams should
have a similar mix of people.
4. Create better teams

12. • Tutor confirms group size,
sets team size and sorting
criteria
• Team-Match match-
makes students into
teams in seconds.
4. Create better teams

13. 85% of students satisfied
with their team work
84% of students increase their
learning network
Award from the UK
Higher Education Academy
Does Team-Match work?

14. www.Team-Match.com/eduBenefits
• Improves the learning experience in all aspects of
group work
• Teaches team work and collaboration skills in a
structured way and applied way
• Increases fairness and student integration
• Improves quality of group work
• Saves tutors time and administration
• Supports in class and virtual teams
• Enhances students’ teamwork and interpersonal
life skills (employability)

15. Team-Match EDU
• www.team-match.com/edu
• Validated with over 4,800 students
across 25 universities in the past
year.

16. • You can get a Team-Match Portal for your Institution
at www.team-match.com/edu
• Easy to use, no training necessary
• Fully hosted, not setup required.
• Works across browsers and devices.
Get Team-Match for your institution!

17. Contact
Dr Norbert Morawetz
norbert@team-match.com
+44 (0) 7872414948