Analysis of Team Characteristics of Project-Based Learning based on Performance Factors of Collaborative Learning

In class of project-based learning (PBL), the class members are divided into some teams which perform each project. The team grouping is important for PBL class management, since the team provides much influence to succeed team activity for the project. Therefore, I investigated features of teams which have achieved better results in PBL. The investigation was achieved in three classes of PBL based on three viewpoints on successful collaborative learning; deeply thinking, wide knowledge, and communication skills. The investigation results show that the team grouping method based on the communication skills provided more teams which have performed better activity in PBL. In addition, I clarified the tendency of the differences between better team and the others by analysis of the communication-skill investigation results.