Student Learning Through Collaborative Decision Making: Analysis of the Effect of Temporal Patterns on Output

This paper describes the methods used for analysis of work style patterns developed by six teams of students working in a simulated distributed decision-making environment over a period of twenty consecutive class meetings. The study required consideration of resource allocation use, effectiveness of team situation assessment, analysis of how the temporal patterns of team work styles developed over time, and assessment of how emergence of different time-use patterns affected team process and product.