The evaluation of teams is usually conducted through organizational, geographic, and/or analytic lenses attempting to isolate novel achievements associated certain problem-solving barriers. The organizational scope is preoccupied with defining and encouraging intra-organizational and inter-sectoral partnerships as well as inter-organizational alliances. The geographic scope focuses on understanding how disparate and/or disconnected communities should be to form a more consistent and efficient entity. The focus of the analytic lens ranges from the “molecular to the molar” levels of analysis striving to understand better the broad context of the specific scientific community in question. Each shares a concern for understanding the structures of the community, while individually concerned with different measures of successful collaboration, suggesting that the mechanism of team science itself, devoid of any specific context, is a subject worthy of scientific study. This ‘think tank’ will explore team science effectiveness measures from several of these perspectives.
AIMS:
- To generate models for learning, scholarship, and service grounded in team science principles.
- To encourage cross-school investments and how the science-of-team-science can inform cross-disciplinary engagement.
- To provide educational opportunities for professionals to learn about strategies used to measure team effectiveness.
