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Rubrics And Teamwork Development In Online Higher Education Business Courses: Exploring The Connection, Maureen Snow Andrade, Jill Jasperson, Ronald Mellado Miller

International Journal for Business Education

Effective teamwork is important in higher education business courses to prepare students for future professional contexts. Learning outcomes resulting from teamwork include motivation, knowledge retention, deep learning, critical thinking, and professional competency development. Effective teams typically work toward a common goal. When teams know what that goal is, they can collaborate and share their skills to achieve it. Instructors can assist in this process by making assignment goals clear through the use of rubrics that outline assignment expectations and by providing feedback to help students achieve the goals. This study examined the use of teamwork and rubrics in three different …