Accessing teamwork skills for workforce readiness

Teamwork has gained increasing prominence as an essential workplace skill in recent years. This chapter reviews the factors that need to be considered by schools approaching the task of developing teamwork assessments. A review of teamwork definitions is given and the dimensions of teamwork as well as the purposes of teams in schools and work settings are discussed. General issues in assessing teamwork are considered by describing factors that affect decisions related to who is assessed, what is assessed and what assessment methods are best suited to teamwork assessments. Finally, there is an ... Show more

Authors: Grummon, Phyllis T. H.

Published: Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997

Resource type: Book chapter

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