Student Ratings of Team Experience (Oakley et al.)
- Did your instructor have you work in teams of two or more in this class?
- No, we did not work in teams
- Teams of two
- Teams of three or more
- Overall, how satisfied were you with your experience with teams in this class?
- Very satisfied
- Somewhat satisfied
- Neutral
- Somewhat dissatisfied
- Very dissatisfied
- Not applicable; did not work in teams in this class
- What type of guidance did you receive from your instructor in this class to help you with your team activities?
- A lot — the instructor guided the class as to how to structure the teams, and evaluated functioning of the teams as the semester progressed
- Some — the instructor gave us some initial guidance and then turned us loose
- None — we were told to get together and work in teams, and that was all
- Not applicable
- Did your instructor/TA (not students) select the team members for at least one of your teams?
- Yes
- No
- If a student on your team did little or no work on an assignment, were you provided the option of not including that student’s name on the finished report?
- Yes
- No
- Did you have the option of firing a person from your team? (Just the option — you didn’t have to have fired anyone.)
- Yes
- No
- Did you have one or more people on your team who you thought did not pull their weight?
- No
- Yes, one person
- Yes, two people
- Yes, three people
Table 2 of Oakley et al. (2007) lists 7 useful teamwork survey questions.
Source: Oakley, B. A., Hanna, D. M., Kuzmyn, Z., & Felder, R. M. (2007). Best practices involving teamwork in the classroom: Results from a survey of 6435 engineering student respondents. IEEE Transactions on Education, 50(3), 266-272.