Presented By: Engineering Education Research
Squeaky Hinges and Sticking-up Nails: Students Negotiating Teamwork
Robin Fowler / University of Michigan
Abstract: In cornerstone and capstone design courses, teams of students negotiate both work products and work processes. In such negotiations, some students speak up more than others, and some are listened to more than others. These patterns of power and agency, many of which happen in small groups and are non-obvious to instructors, have important implications for student experiences in our courses and for overall inclusion and belongingness. In this talk, I will present research (forthcoming in Journal of Applied Psychology) from first year courses at UM to show both predictors to speaking up as well as downstream effects of having one's ideas listened to. I will also describe ongoing efforts to enable students and instructors to recognize inequitable patterns of speech and influence (one, a 50-min classroom activity easily adapted for other contexts; the other, a grant-funded study of "equity reports" highlighting trends for faculty). Finally, I will discuss the opportunities and challenges of working as a teaching faculty member, researching student experiences in my own classrooms.
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