AUTHOR=León-del-Barco Benito , Mendo-Lázaro Santiago , Felipe-Castaño Elena , Fajardo-Bullón Fernando , Iglesias-Gallego Damián TITLE=Measuring Responsibility and Cooperation in Learning Teams in the University Setting: Validation of a Questionnaire JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00326 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00326 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Cooperative learning are being used increasingly in the university classroom, in order to promote teamwork among students, improve performance and develop interpersonal competences. Responsibility and cooperation are two fundamental pillars of cooperative learning. Team members’ responsibility is a necessary condition for the team’s success in the assigned tasks. Students must be aware that they depend on each other and should make their maximum effort. On the other hand, in efficient groups, the members cooperate and pool their efforts to achieve the proposed goals. In this research, we propose to create a