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Teamwork in academia: an empirical study
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The Bologna Process introduced some changes in the curriculum of higher
education institutions (HEIs) and defined that academic learning should consider the needs
of the labour market. HEIs and employers agree that personal skills are the most important
set of competence of graduates (Pavlin, Akkuyunlu, Kovacic, & Svetlik, 2009).
The goals of this work were to explore how the work experienced by teams of
students in HEIs might help them improve their personal skills, namely empirically
explore the perception of teamwork and personality into two groups of students. The study
was based on the theoretical model of Team Evolution and Maturation (TEAM, Fransen,
2012). The sample consisted of 99 students of the 3rd year of the degree (1st cycle) in
Computer Science (49 students) and the 2nd year of the Bachelor's Degree (1st cycle) in
Psychology (50 students), from the University of Madeira, Portugal. Areas of personality
and team collaboration were evaluated with a Pre- and Post-test. Findings show that the
perception of the teamwork collaboration of students in Computer Science and Psychology
majors seems to be influenced by their scientific area, by gender, by the selection method
of the time-organiser, the self-perceived personality of the time-organiser, the self
perceived personality of the non-time-organiser, and the size of the team. It is expected
that this data will contribute to further theoretical and practical reflection on the teamwork
among college students and their performance in the labour market.
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Teamwork Teamwork collaboration Personality Psychology . Centro de Ciências Sociais