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Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork
Cooperative, collaborative learning and other forms of group learning methods are increasingly used in classrooms. Knowing students’ attitudes toward teamwork has great value since they influence the students’ learning results as well as their social development. So it is necessary to have robust in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5477521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28676775 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01009 |
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author | Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago Polo-del-Río, María I. Iglesias-Gallego, Damián Felipe-Castaño, Elena León-del-Barco, Benito |
author_facet | Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago Polo-del-Río, María I. Iglesias-Gallego, Damián Felipe-Castaño, Elena León-del-Barco, Benito |
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description | Cooperative, collaborative learning and other forms of group learning methods are increasingly used in classrooms. Knowing students’ attitudes toward teamwork has great value since they influence the students’ learning results as well as their social development. So it is necessary to have robust instruments to provide a better understanding of these attitudes and preferences concerning teamwork. Such instruments also help to identify the factors that promote positive or negative attitudes within the context of group activities. Using a sample of 750 first and second year university students studying a degree in Kindergarten, Primary and Social Education, an instrument measuring attitudes toward team learning has been developed. Two distinct factors were obtained through various factorial analyses and structural equations: Academic attitudes and Social and emotional attitudes. Our study reveals that the instrument is both valid and reliable. Its application is both simple and fast and it has important implications for planning teaching and learning activities that contribute to an improvement in attitudes as well as the practice of teaching in the context of learning through teamwork. |
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spelling | pubmed-54775212017-07-04 Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago Polo-del-Río, María I. Iglesias-Gallego, Damián Felipe-Castaño, Elena León-del-Barco, Benito Front Psychol Psychology Cooperative, collaborative learning and other forms of group learning methods are increasingly used in classrooms. Knowing students’ attitudes toward teamwork has great value since they influence the students’ learning results as well as their social development. So it is necessary to have robust instruments to provide a better understanding of these attitudes and preferences concerning teamwork. Such instruments also help to identify the factors that promote positive or negative attitudes within the context of group activities. Using a sample of 750 first and second year university students studying a degree in Kindergarten, Primary and Social Education, an instrument measuring attitudes toward team learning has been developed. Two distinct factors were obtained through various factorial analyses and structural equations: Academic attitudes and Social and emotional attitudes. Our study reveals that the instrument is both valid and reliable. Its application is both simple and fast and it has important implications for planning teaching and learning activities that contribute to an improvement in attitudes as well as the practice of teaching in the context of learning through teamwork. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5477521/ /pubmed/28676775 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01009 Text en Copyright © 2017 Mendo-Lázaro, Polo-del-Río, Iglesias-Gallego, Felipe-Castaño and León-del-Barco. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago Polo-del-Río, María I. Iglesias-Gallego, Damián Felipe-Castaño, Elena León-del-Barco, Benito Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork |
title | Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork |
title_full | Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork |
title_fullStr | Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork |
title_full_unstemmed | Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork |
title_short | Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument for Attitudes towards Teamwork |
title_sort | construction and validation of a measurement instrument for attitudes towards teamwork |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5477521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28676775 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01009 |
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