INGRoup 2014 Ninth Annual Conference 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

Call for Proposals Small Group Research 2015 Review Issue 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

Teaching People About Groups 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

This special issue of Small Group Research, entitled Teaching People about Groups, features six articles on the ways in which instructors of group courses (in several disciplines) can creatively teach...

Experiential Learning in an Undergraduate Course in Group Communication and Decision Making 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

The innovative structure of an undergraduate course on communication and decision making in small groups, based on the framework of Kolb’s experiential learning theory, is described. The course involv...

Practicing What We Preach: Teaching Teams Using Validated Team Science 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

The scientist-practitioner model, upon which many academic programs (including coursework on teams) are built, suggests that education should focus on more than just rote knowledge of a topic. The tra...

Social Constructivist Teaching Strategies in the Small Group Classroom 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

The purpose of this article is to describe a series of techniques for teaching students about groups. Vygotsky’s social constructivism is used as a theoretical framework to understand the ways that st...

Virtual Team Effectiveness: An Experiential Activity 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

Although the topic of virtual teams has created interest within the academic and practitioner literature, there is a lack of research on how to teach or train individuals to be effective members of su...

Developing Students As Global Learners: "Groups in Our World" Blog 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

This case study investigates the use of online blogs as a teaching tool. A collaborative blog was implemented in parallel classes on group processes in the United States and Germany. Our goal was to c...

Beyond 12 Angry Men: Thin-Slicing Film to Illustrate Group Dynamics 26 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm

The ability of group members to shape group behaviors can greatly influence collective outcomes; however, the skills associated with correctly recognizing behaviors in situ and responding appropriatel...

Goal Instructions, Response Format, and Idea Generation in Groups 14 May 2013 | 12:44 pm

This study examined the separate and joint impact of two standard, but seemingly conflicting brainstorming rules on idea generation in interacting and nominal groups: the free-wheeeling rule, which ca...