Team work breakdown : a tool for increasing individual accountability and integrated learning across group projects

Assessing individual contributions to group projects continues to be a challenging task in engineering education. In addition, unless held accountable, when given a group project, students will complete their individual project components, without learning aspects about other student work contained within the same project. This paper describes a teaching tool called a Team Work Breakdown (TWB) that is used for students to document their contributions to a group project. The paper describes the implementation of the tool and instructor feedback on the use of the tool.