Team cognition predicts team performance: transactive memory systems (20%) and shared mental models (10%) explain significant variance, and situational awareness shows the largest relationship but rests on a small sample¶

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q3 i? Transactive memory systems (rho = .45, 20% variance) and team mental models (rho = .32, 10%) predict team performance; situational awareness shows the largest relationship (rho = .63, 40%) but with only k = 2. → Robert A. Sottilare 2018

Evidence¶

Robert A. Sottilare 2018¶

Robert A. Sottilare, C. Shawn Burke, Eduardo Salas, Anne M. Sinatra, Joan H. Johnston, Stephen B. Gilbert. (2018). Designing Adaptive Instruction for Teams: a Meta-Analysis. Int J Artif Intell Educ 28:225–264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-017-0146-z

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Meta-analytic synthesis of cognitive contributions to team performance (Table 4); overall cognitive rho = .38 (14% variance), with transactive memory systems rho = .45. The article reports that "transactive memory systems and shared mental models accounted for 20% and 10% of the variance in team performance, respectively."

"Transactive memory systems and shared mental models accounted for 20% and 10% of the variance in team performance, respectively (see Table 4). Surprisingly, but with a caveat, situational awareness was the one construct to show the largest relationship with performance."

Discussion¶

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