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)