Project B05

Project B05

Diagnosing and Intervening in teams: Personalising collaborative problem-simulations based on individual- and group-level characteristics

Summary

Project B05 investigates in the context of a medical simulation how people collaborate and learn together in teams. The project focuses on the conditions that enable effective teamwork, the processes that shape collaboration, and the challenges teams need to overcome when solving problems together. In addition, the project explores how social learning processes emerge and how teams can be supported more effectively. The overall aim is to develop a better understanding of how collaborative work and shared learning can be fostered.

Participants

Principal Investigators

Research associates

Collaboration partners

Goal

The aim of Project B05 is to better understand how effective collaboration and shared learning can be fostered in teams. To achieve this, we investigate team processes, challenges, and support measures in a medical simulation. The findings will help to improve collaboration and learning in team settings.

Research Questions

  • Which individual and team characteristics are important for effective teamwork?

  • How do teams work together successfully? Which collaborative activities support this process?

  • Which challenges do teams need to overcome when solving problems and what do they need in order to do so?

  • How can team and learning processes be improved through appropriate scaffolding?

Methodology

The project begins with a research synthesis on the role of individual and group characteristics in collaborative problem-solving. The remaining research questions are addressed using a medical simulation. In this simulation, medical students work through realistic emergency scenarios in which they must diagnose patients and make treatment decisions. The scenarios involve situations where patients are in acute life-threatening conditions.

Role Within the Collaborative Research Center

  • Provision of an assessment instrument for coding behavioural indicators of social learning processes (B01, B02, B03)

  • Sharing and exchange of findings on relevant group characteristics (B01, B02, B06)

  • Provision of a taxonomy of challenges in team processes (B02, B04)

  • Working group for the development of a tool for the self-assessment of social activities (B02)

  • Exchange on the conduct of research syntheses and joint data collection (M)

Publications

2024

2022

2021

2020