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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"collaborative teams"”.
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Organizing for innovation : an examination of collaborative teams in industrial design
… so as to maximize the potential of their teams? I begin this thesis with an examination of literature on teamwork, the dynamics of idea propagation, and the product development process itself. This is meant to extract some insights into successful teams across a broad spectrum of …
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Level of Agreement in the Mental Models of Human Factors Practitioners and Systems Engineers Working in Collaborative Teams
… design efforts rely often on multi-disciplinary teams. While any two members of a design team may view the system design problem in vastly different manners, this study sought to identify a possible systemic effect on approach by the differing education and experience obtained by social …
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Development and determination of reliability and validity of professional learning community collaborative team survey (CTS)
The study of transformative learning within collaborative teams was conducted to gain new applicable knowledge used to influence overall school improvement and implementation of professional learning communities. To obtain this new knowledge, the Professional Learning Community Collaborative Team …
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Michigan’s quantitative school culture inventories and student achievement
… Further, that higher reported levels of collaborative teams and collective responsibility, indicators of healthy school culture within a school, were significantly correlated to higher levels of academic achievement. Findings of this study offered evidence that school leaders in Michigan …
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Patent Collaboration and Team Formation
… the team formation problem is to produce small teams that have a required set of skills. We propose a framework that incorporates machine learning to predict unobserved links between collaborators, alongside Steiner tree problem solutions to form small teams to cover given tasks. Our framework …
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The Impact of Collaborative Teacher Teaming on Teacher Learning
… The following question guided this inquiry: In collaborative groups, what learning is recognized by teachers and what do teachers think facilitates that learning? The qualitative study investigated how teachers that participate in collaborative teams describe the learning process. The teachers …
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Professional Learning Communities: The Impact on Teacher Practice
… a shared vision and mission, collective inquiry, collaborative teams, action research and experimentation, continuous improvement, and being results oriented. By following these guiding principles, the goal was to show how this process improved teacher practice enough to help students be …
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What Sustains Inter-institutional Collaborations? An Exploratory Study of Research Collaborations between Faculty at HBCUs and PWIs
… from 15 faculty members representing eight collaborative teams, across Virginia Tech and six different HBCUs. The findings indicate that potential collaboration and sustainability of partnerships rely on dynamic interactions between three dimensions in temporal context: Structure, broader …
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The spatial and institutional factors of knowledge production at MIT
… research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative - around the globe and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of the campus? I examine the scholarly output and collaboration patterns of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as they pertain to its …
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The Relationally-Centered Integrated Behavioral Health Model: Exploring Holistic Patient Health Outcomes
… provide holistic care to patients by organizing collaborative teams of biomedical and psychosocial health services. Due to the diversity of patient needs, many IPC models have been created with varying methods of organizational structure and foci. This dissertation explores the physical and …
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The Effect of Design Teams on Preservice Teachers' Technology Integration
… a specific instructional approach called design teams on preservice teachers' attitudes toward technology, their technology skills, and their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). In a design teams approach, participants work in collaborative teams to design solutions to solve …
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THE INFLUENCE OF GAME DESIGN ON THE COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS: A CROSS-CASE STUDY OF MULTI-PLAYER COLLABORATIVE GAMEPLAY ANALYSIS
… relationships between game design attributes and collaborative problem solving process in the context of multi-player video games. The following game design attributes: sensory stimuli elements, level of challenge, and presentation of game goals and rules were examined to determine their influence …
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MEANS OF CONVEYANCE: SPOKEN WORD PEDAGOGY, HIP HOP LITERACIES, AND THE CHALLENGES OF FOSTERING POETRY SPACES
… The findings of this four year study reveal that collaborative teams of poets often face concrete challenges sustaining educational poetry programs, which threaten the relationships necessary to hearten such communities. Findings also highlight that many participants use poetry to name these …
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Study of the Relationship of Organizational Protective Processes and Teacher Resilience
… Teachers should also be allowed to work in collaborative teams and interact with colleagues when designing curriculum and lesson planning. Schools should also have strong induction programs for new teachers that allow for veteran teachers to mentor them through the induction phase of their …
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Sustainability of a comprehensive school reform model from the perspectives of three participating principals
… school reform, in the form of Literacy Collaborative. The study was guided by one research question: how did elementary principals sustain a comprehensive school reform effort in the form of Literacy Collaborative? The study purposively sampled three elementary school principals in a …
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Teaching Characteristics And Practices Which Affect Language And Literacy Development For Students With Complex Communication Needs
… visual, and access options are essential. Strong collaborative teams (school and district) are also important. However, one of the most significant findings documents that success may lie with the teacher's 'choice' to embrace challenges with this population. This issue of 'choice' questions the …
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Forecasting collaboration capacity by driving output in product teams
… innovative engines or product development teams are becoming essential entities for entrepreneurial survival and versatility during economic uncertainty. How can a product designer, an engineer and a businessman work together efficiently'? What makes the team perform better? Are there any …
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Digital Echoes of the iGeneration: An Examination of Digital Media Used in 21st Century Education
… study explores the use of digital media as three teams of middle grades students create an original film about a topic of their choosing. The impetus of the study is fueled by a personal curiosity to see how students learn when given the freedom and flexibility to research and explore outside of a …