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Title: An approach to educating team work
Author (s): Takai, Shun
Veluru, N.K.
Department/Lab Affiliations: Design Engineering Center
Intelligent Systems Center
Interdisciplinary Engineering
Keywords: Free-riding
Grade
Repeated prisoner dilemma game
Team
Team project
Subject Terms: Cooperation.
Issue Date: 2006
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Citation: Veluru, N.K. and Takai, S., “An Approach to Educating Team Work,” Proceedings of DETC/CIE 2006 ASME 2006 Intl Design Engineering & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences, Philadelphia, PA. DETC2006-99644.
Abstract: When students are working as a team in a project, there is always a temptation to contribute less to the work and yet receive the same credit for the project. This phenomenon is often called free-riding. Free-riding sometimes occurs in a team-project-based design class. Free-riding may interfere with a team working environment and may lead to poor performance of the team. In order to reduce the free-riding problem, the authors used a repeated prisoner's dilemma game in a pilot experiment to explore if it is possible to educate students the benefit of contributing to their projects. The authors used grades in the payoff matrix of the game to simulate an academic environment.
Type: Article - Conference proceedings
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In Title: Proceedings of DETC/CIE 2006 ASME 2006 Intl Design Engineering & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences September 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA (DETC2006)
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titleAn approach to educating team work
contributor.authorTakai, Shun
contributor.authorVeluru, N.K.
contributor.deptlabDesign Engineering Center
contributor.deptlabIntelligent Systems Center
contributor.deptlabInterdisciplinary Engineering
subjectFree-riding
subjectGrade
subjectRepeated prisoner dilemma game
subjectTeam
subjectTeam project
subject.LCSHCooperation.
date.issued2006
publisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers
identifier.citationVeluru, N.K. and Takai, S., “An Approach to Educating Team Work,” Proceedings of DETC/CIE 2006 ASME 2006 Intl Design Engineering & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences, Philadelphia, PA. DETC2006-99644.
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description.abstractWhen students are working as a team in a project, there is always a temptation to contribute less to the work and yet receive the same credit for the project. This phenomenon is often called free-riding. Free-riding sometimes occurs in a team-project-based design class. Free-riding may interfere with a team working environment and may lead to poor performance of the team. In order to reduce the free-riding problem, the authors used a repeated prisoner's dilemma game in a pilot experiment to explore if it is possible to educate students the benefit of contributing to their projects. The authors used grades in the payoff matrix of the game to simulate an academic environment.
typeArticle - Conference proceedings
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rightsThis material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
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