Collection of Materials Related to Team-Based Learning

This page contains links to a collection of charts, diagrams, and tables that teachers may find useful in a variety of situations. The materials have been grouped into two sets of documents.

A. Explaining Team-Based Learning to Others.

From time to time, you may feel a need to explain team-based learning, either to students who are experiencing it for the first time, or to colleagues who need to understand the ideas behind a significantly different way of teaching. These materials present some ideas on how team-based learning works and why it operates the way it does.

1. Comparisons of Traditional Teaching and Team-Based Learning

• Course Objectives and Instructional Strategies
• Learning Objectives and Use of Class Time
• The Means by which Students Gain Their Initial Exposure to Content and Learn to Apply Concepts

2. How Team-Based Learning Promotes the Learning of Complex Concepts

• What Are the Sources of Learning?
• Impact of Team-Based Learning on Driving a More Powerful Process
• Key Course Design Questions - Useful Both for Designing a Course and for Explaining to Students Where the Course is Headed
• The Sequence of Events in a Team-Based Learning Course
• The Sequence of Events in the Readiness Assurance Process
• Criteria for Effective Group Assignments
• Frequency of RATs and Application Exercises: A Specific Example
• Effect of "Time in Groups" on "Team Performance"
  • Team Performance in Relation to Individual Performance
  • Team Performance and Heterogenous Groups
  • Individual vs. Team Cumulative RAT Scores

B. Helpful Forms.

This set of documents contains forms that may be useful as you are getting started with team-based learning and when soliciting feedback from the class part of the way through the semester.

1. For the Team Folder

• Record of Attendance and Performance
• Instructions for Appeals

2. Peer Evaluation Forms

• Michaelsen's Form
• Fink's Form

3. Assessing the Course and Team Effectiveness (as referenced in video clip #10)

• Feedback Form #1
• Feedback Form #2
• Feedback Form #3