@inproceedings{f75ac19ae24940e69f3ae374d286c07e,
title = "You want me to work with who? Stakeholder perceptions of automated team formation in project-based courses",
abstract = "Instructors are increasingly using algorithmic tools for team formation, yet little is known about how these tools are applied or how students and instructors perceive their use. We studied a representative team formation tool (CATME) in eight project-based courses. An instructor uses the tool to form teams by surveying students' working styles, skills, and demographics-then configuring the criteria as input into an algorithm that assigns teams. We surveyed students (N=277) in the courses to gauge their perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the tool and ideas for improving it. We also interviewed instructors (N=13) different from those who taught the eight courses to learn about their criteria selections and perceptions of the tool. Students valued the rational basis for forming teams but desired a stronger voice in criteria selection and explanations as to why they were assigned to a particular team. Instructors appreciated the efficiency of team formation but wanted to view exemplars of criteria used in similar courses. This work contributes recommendations for deploying team formation tools in educational settings and for better satisfying the goals of all stakeholders.",
keywords = "Algorithms, CATME, Education, Team formation",
author = "Farnaz Jahanbakhsh and Fu, {Wai Tat} and Karrie Karahalios and Darko Marinov and Brian Bailey",
note = "Funding Information: This work was partially funded by the Strategic Instructional Innovations Program at the University of Illinois and by NSF award CCF-1439957. We thank professors Tao Xie, Ranjitha Kumar, and Alex Kirlik for helping with data collection. We also thank Helen Wauck and Sanorita Dey for helping with data analysis, and Yiwen Xu and Yi-Chieh Lee for assisting with the initial deployment of the team formation tool. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 ACM.; 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 ; Conference date: 06-05-2017 Through 11-05-2017",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3025453.3026011",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "3201--3212",
booktitle = "CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}