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Various policy papers assert that teamwork is an essential skill for the 21stcentury workforce. However, outside of organizational psychology research with adult populations, there are few reliable assessments of this construct with suitable validity evidence for test scores. To redress this issue, self-report, situational judgment, and teacher-report assessments of teamwork were developed for high school students. Various multivariate techniques were used to determine the structure of the scales, including factor and latent class analysis. Measures showed reasonable reliability and satisfactory validity evidence: Self-report, situational judgment, and teacher-report measures intercorrelated, and these measures also related to academic achievement. The advantages and disadvantages of each methodology are discussed, as are possible uses of this assessment system (e.g., evaluation of school-based programs that infuse curricula with modules on teamwork).

Divers articles sur les politiques affirment que le travail d'équipe est essentiel à la force de travail du 21^e siècle. Cependant, en dehors des recherches en psychologie des organisations chez les adultes, peu d'évaluations fiables ont été faites sur ce thème avec suffisamment de validité. Pour pallier cette situation, nous avons élaboré des mesures d'auto-évaluation, de jugements de situations et d'évaluation par les enseignants du travail d'équipe chez les étudiants du secondaire. Diverses techniques multivariées ont été utilisées pour déterminer la structure des mesures, y compris des analyses factorielles et de classes latentes. Les mesures se révèlent raisonnablement fiables et leur validité est satisfaisante. L'auto-évaluation, les jugements de situations et l'évaluation par les enseignants sont en intercorrélation et toutes ces mesures sont également liées au rendement scolaire. Nous abordons le pour et le contre de chaque méthodologie, de même que les utilisations possibles de ce système d'évaluation (p. ex. l'évaluation de programmes scolaires qui comprennent des curriculum avec des modules fondés sur le travail d'équipe).

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teamwork situational judgment test teacher ratings academic achievement latent class analysis structural equation modeling

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Assessing Teamwork and Collaboration in High School Students

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