Using Your Brain To Build Teams That Work: A Study Of The Freshman And Sophomore Engineering Clinics At Rowan University
Kathleen Pearle, Gary Dainton, C. Johnston, David Hutto, Kathryn Hollar, Eric Constans, Jennifer Kadlowec, Joseph Orlins, Kauser Jahan, Roberta Harvey, Bernard Pietrucha, Paris von Lockette, Linda Head, Stephanie Farrell, Douglas Cleary
Abstract
This paper discusses the results of the first semester of a longitudinal study of intentional teambuilding undertaken in the Freshman and Sophomore Engineering Clinics at Rowan University. Students took Johnston & Dainton's Learning Combination Inventory 1 (LCI), a 28item self-report instrument that quantitatively and qualitatively captures the degree to which an individual uses each of four learning patterns. Through these patterns the learner represents how he or she sees the world, takes in stimuli, integrates the stimuli and formulates a response to it. An individual can begin his or her learning with a particular pattern or patterns, use patterns as needed, or avoid them. Teams were then created in order to maximize individual and collective use of learning patterns. This paper will report 1. The results of the initial study conducted during the Fall 2001 semester.