Teamwork Effectiveness in Student’s Final Year Project

Authors

  • Norazah Yusof King Abdul Aziz University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7729-8149
  • Ramlah Hussein King Abdul Aziz University
  • Rathiah Hashim King Abdul Aziz University
  • Andi Besse Firdausiah Mansur King Abdul Aziz University
  • Saadia Malik King Abdul Aziz University
  • Nada Bajnaid King Abdul Aziz University
  • Shereena Mohd Arif King Abdul Aziz University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i15.23705

Keywords:

teamwork effectiveness, interpersonal skills, interdependence, commitment to success

Abstract


The goal of this paper is to deliberate issues pertaining to teamwork effectiveness among students in a university environment. Final year project is an important assessment to measure students’ teamwork skills in the university. Three main factors have been identified that contribute to teamwork effectiveness. The factors are namely interpersonal skills, interdependence and commitment to success. Interpersonal factors include social sensitivity and emotional engagement attributes. In this perspective, measures such as teamwork support, care, trust, honesty and respect towards team members are important key criteria. On the other hand, interdependence among others includes traits such as promoting each other to achieve common goals, bringing the best of each other and helping each other completing the task. Commitment to team success involves high obligation, high motivation, strong common goals and strong shared values and beliefs. In this paper, construct items for each factor are developed based on previous studies. The findings show that these factors are relevant toward the success of the student’s final year project. Lacking these skills may result in poor performance among team members and may lead to unfavorable outcome.

Author Biographies

Norazah Yusof, King Abdul Aziz University

Norazah Yusof is an Associate Professor in Computer Science department at the King Abdul Aziz University. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM). Her research interests include Learning Analytics, Soft Computing, Teamwork effectiveness, and Software Engineering

Ramlah Hussein, King Abdul Aziz University

Ramlah Hussein is a freelance research associate, author and consultant in the Information Systems field. Her research interest covers an interdisciplinary area including internet privacy, information security, e-government, online learning and technology acceptance. She had served as an associate professor at both the public and private institutions in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia

Rathiah Hashim, King Abdul Aziz University

Rathiah Hashim works at the department of Information Technology, the King Abdul Aziz University. Her research areas include Visual Data, Human Comput-er Interface, Applied Psychology and Computer Graphics.

Andi Besse Firdausiah Mansur, King Abdul Aziz University

Andi Besse Firdausiah Mansur is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department at the King Abdul Aziz University. Her research interests are Social Network Analysis, E-learning, Clustering, Data Mining and Mathematics

Saadia Malik, King Abdul Aziz University

Saadia Malik is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems department of King Abdul Aziz university. Her research interests include Artificial Intelli-gence, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Statistical Analysis

Nada Bajnaid, King Abdul Aziz University

Nada Bajnaid is an Assistant Professor at King Abdul Aziz University. Her re-search interests are Ontology, Semantic Web, Context Awareness and software quality.

Shereena Mohd Arif, King Abdul Aziz University

Shereena Mohd Arif was an Assistant Professor in Information Science de-partment at the King Abdul Aziz University. She was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Her research interests include Learning Analytics, Data Retrieval and Information Science. She is now retired and spend her time doing voluntary community work in Qatar

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Published

2021-08-11

How to Cite

Yusof, N., Hussein, R., Hashim, R., Mansur, A. B. F., Malik, S., Bajnaid, N., & Mohd Arif, S. (2021). Teamwork Effectiveness in Student’s Final Year Project. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 16(15), pp. 4–15. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i15.23705

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 15 (2021)

Section

Papers

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