Title:	TEAMWORK ASSESSMENT WITH SEVERAL LEVELS OF HIERARCHY: A LINK BETWEEN EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT FIELDS
Author(s):	Martin Lesage
ISBN:	978-989-8533-46-3
Editors:	Piet Kommers, Tomayess Issa, Theodora Issa, Mário Dantas, Cristiano Costa and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2015
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Management, Education, Teamwork assessment, Hierarchical aggregate assessment, E-Learning, E-Assessment.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	61
Last Page:	72
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Usually, the assessment of large organizations with several levels of hierarchy is part of the management field and done by Management Information Systems (MIS). The information produced by these systems are turnover, net sales, gross sales, stock list, inventory, payroll and staff listings (Laudon & Laudon, 2000; Laudon, Laudon & Brabston, 2011). However, assessment of teams with several levels of hierarchy can also occur in the education field. Some examples are the production of the class newspaper, the teaching of group counseling, assessment of teaching internships and also all productions and performances made by teams. In the case of the class newspaper where students can be appointed to the hierarchical positions of journalist, chief of chronicle and editor-in-chief, the journalist can be identified as a team member, the chief of a chronicle a team leader and the editor-in-chief as the team administrator or the team manger that supervises team leaders. A large amount of research have been done on Management Information System (MIS) but in opposition, almost no research have been done in education on the assessment of teams of students having several levels of hierarchy except for the assessment system developed by Nance (2000, p. 198). The only research done concerns teams with only one level of hierarchy where team members assess their team leader or the team leader assess his team members with assessment grids as in the SPARK (Freeman & McKenzie, 2000, 2002; Willey & Freeman, 2006), OTAS (Undre, Sevdalis, Healey, Darzi & Vincent, 2007), Mega Code (Kaye & Mancini, 1986) and MLE (Marshall-Mies, Fleishman, Martin, Zaccaro, Baughman & McGee, 2000) applications. An Internet assessment application named « Cluster » (Lesage, Raîche, Riopel, Fortin & Sebkhi, 2015) that assess teams with several levels of hierarchy in the field of education has been developed for a Ph.D. project. This application is very similar to a Management Information System (MIS) because both applications are able to assess organizations with several level of hierarchy. The only difference is that the educational applications produces marks and assessment data instead of management data. The actual research is able to prove that adding educational assessment capabilities to any Management Information Systems (MIS) can suit this application to be used in the field of education. The last statement defining a link between the fields of education and management. The process of grouping the students in teams with a hierarchical tree structure by giving them hierarchical positions, to present the team an assessment task and after dismantling the teams to reform the students with different hierarchical positions to present them another assessment task is called the hierarchical aggregate assessment process (Lesage, Raîche, Riopel, Fortin & Sebkhi, 2015).
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