Two pedagogical tools—the instructor's response to an initial draft of student-team projects and the group-project outline—are shown to be useful for enhancing the quality of term-long team projects in a marketing class. Findings are based upon students' assessment of the effectiveness of numerous pedagogical tools. Suggestions are offered for supervising student teams.
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