Collaborative Learning in the Flipped University Classroom: Identifying Team Process Factors

Suhkyung Shin, Kyungbin Kwon and Jiyoon Jung
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Suhkyung Shin: Department of Education, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea
Kyungbin Kwon: School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Jiyoon Jung: College of Education & Human Services, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA 31698, USA

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-12

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine how team process factors relate to students’ self-efficacy, attitude, and learning satisfaction in flipped learning. Since lone-wolf students tend to have little patience for the group work process and exhibit a lack of organizational commitment, this study also explores how students’ preferences for collaborative work or individual work affect their self-efficacy, attitude, and learning satisfaction in a flipped classroom. The participants were thirty-four undergraduate students enrolled in a consumer behavior course offered by a school of business at a university in Seoul, South Korea. Data were collected through surveys that measured team process, lone-wolf tendencies, self-efficacy, and attitude during the course. The results show the factor of team trust had a significant negative correlation with the lone-wolf measure but a positive correlation with responsibility, communication, cognitive and social competency, and self-efficacy. Moreover, communication and responsibility were positive predictors of self-efficacy and attitude. These results imply the usefulness of identifying critical variables of individual difference, such as lone-wolf tendencies, that could lead to both dysfunctional team process and low outcomes. Based on the results, this study provides implications for structuring and managing team projects in a higher education setting.

Keywords: collaboration; lone wolf; learning preference; team learning; flipped learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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