2.7 Data collection and analysis
At the end of semester (after marks had been released), an anonymous
Microsoft Forms survey was sent to all the students in the class
(Supplementary Material 4 for the full set of questions). For comparison
to previous team training experience (Rasmussen et al., 2011) the open
questions regarding the benefits or detriments of teamwork were coded
using the same keywords (Detriments: social/personal; conflict
management; marks/assessment; logistics; unequal workload. Benefits:
Learning; Shared workload; social/personal; enjoyable; marks;
employability; and the only other response was about communications).
Specific to the COVID-19 lockdown situation, the open ended questions
about the effects of COVID-19 were coded as positive (team support;
improved logistics; adapting to the situation) or negative (Stress/loss
of motivation; technical challenges such as editing or filming;
communications/meeting in person). The data were plotted as percentage
of total respondents (12), or as the number of responses (where students
could choose more than one response or from the coded open-ended
responses).
As this applies to only one cohort of 24 students and only 12 students
responded to the anonymous survey, no additional statistical analysis
has been conducted. Instead we provide quotes of student responses to
further support our interpretations of the data. The full set of open
responses can be found in Supplementary Material 5(A-E)