Cooperative learning has gained popularity in higher educational settings. However, assigning grades equitably to all team members in a way that rewards them for their contributions remains challenging. In this paper, we ask whether having free riders on a team lowers the quality of submitted work, and whether students’ course performance correlates with peer evaluations. In an introductory soc...

BACKGROUND Although some studies have used the Team Climate Inventory within teams working in health care settings, none of these included quality improvement teams. The aim of our study is to investigate the psychometric properties of the 14-item version of the Team Climate Inventory in healthcare quality improvement teams participating in a Dutch quality collaborative. METHODS This study in...

In this paper we try to create a context to understand design practices from the quality point of view. Our approach is ethnography based and conceptual. We studied several multimedia production teams to find out how they define quality, how they try to measure and achieve it, and how and why they want to establish sustainable quality in their design practices. First we introduce three dimensio...