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Plaisance  \nUniversity of Waterloo, [kplaisan@uwaterloo.ca](kplaisan@uwaterloo.ca)[ ](kplaisan@uwaterloo.ca)Christine Logel  \nUniversity of Waterloo, [clogel@uwaterloo.ca](clogel@uwaterloo.ca)[ ](clogel@uwaterloo.ca)Christopher Lok  \nUniversity of Waterloo, [cblok@uwaterloo.ca](cblok@uwaterloo.ca)  \nFollow this and additional works at: [https://www.cjsotl-rcacea.ca](https://www.cjsotl-rcacea.ca)  \n[https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.14531](https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.14531)  \nRecommended Citation  \nPlaisance, K. S., Logel, C., & Lok, C. (2024) . Making collaboration work: Fostering positive experiences and attitudes around psychological safety, diversity, and the value of teamwork. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 15(3). [https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.14531](https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.3.14531)  \nMaking Collaboration Work: Fostering Positive Experiencesand Attitudes around Psychological Safety, Diversity, and the Value of Teamwork  \nAbstract  \nThe ability to work well in a team is becoming increasingly important across disciplines and throughout the workplace, making it a valuable skill for students to develop. Evidence suggests that diverse perspectives can generate more innovative ideas and enhance critical thinking, but only if team members value diversity and share knowledge with one another. To foster students’ abilities to work well in diverse teams, we must teach them why collaboration is important and how to bring about its benefits. We describe a new interdisciplinary course designed with these goals, along with an evaluation of the degree to which students who take this course show changes in attitudes and beliefs around teamwork. The course emphasizes psychological safety—a measure of how safe a team is for interpersonal risk-taking. Research shows that psychological safety is an important predictor of team success and a key mechanism for incorporating diverse perspectives. We surveyed students atthe start of the course, the end of the course, and just after the following term. At the end of the course, students reported increased psychological safety in their teams, more positive attitudes towards teamwork, and stronger beliefs that diversity is beneficial. At the end of the following term, students reported higher levels of psychological safety in their teams than before the course, and their attitudes about psychological safety and teamwork still remained more positive. We discuss implications of these findings for researchers studying student teamwork and for instructors who wish to introduce or improve collaborative experiences in their courses.  \nLa capacité à travailler en équipe est de plus en plus importante dans toutes les disciplines et sur le lieu de travail, ce qui en fait une compétence précieuse à développer pour les étudiants et les étudiantes. Il est prouvé que la diversité des points de vue peut générer des idées plus innovantes etrenforcer la pensée critique, mais seulement si les membres de l'équipe valorisent la diversité et partagent leurs connaissances les uns avec les autres. Pour développer les capacités des étudiants et des étudiantes à bien travailler au sein d'équipes diverses, nous devons leur enseigner pourquoi la collaboration est importante et comment en tirer profit. Nous décrivons un nouveau cours interdisciplinaire conçu avec ces objectifs, ainsi qu'une évaluation de la mesure dans laquelle les étudiants et les étudiantes qui suivent ce cours montrent des changements d'attitudes et de croyances concernant le travail d'équipe. Le cours met l'accent sur la sécurité psychologique – une mesure de lasécurité d'une ","cbCaivPElnLuXiQm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivPElnLuXiQm","pdf",309519,22,"English","# Abstract\n## Course design and focus\n## Measures and survey timeline\n## Reported outcomes and implications","[{\"question\":\"Why is psychological safety central to the course described in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The course emphasizes psychological safety as a way to make interpersonal risk-taking safer for team members, and research links it to team success and to how diverse perspectives are incorporated.\"},{\"question\":\"When were students surveyed to evaluate changes in attitudes and beliefs?\",\"answer\":\"Students were surveyed at the start of the course, at the end of the course, and just after the following term.\"},{\"question\":\"What changes did students report by the end of the course and after the next term?\",\"answer\":\"By the end of the course, students reported increased psychological safety and more positive attitudes toward teamwork, with stronger beliefs that diversity is beneficial. 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