Lack of time and heavy workload are organizational barriers to team-based professional development in higher education¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2022: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Teams often find it difficult to find the time to meet or finish a training, and heavy workload was identified as a challenge. → Gast 2017

Evidence¶

Gast 2017¶

Gast, Inken; Schildkamp, Kim; van der Veen, Jan T. (2017). Team-Based Professional Development Interventions in Higher Education: A Systematic Review. Review of Educational Research. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654317704306

q2 · i? · review · r3

Organizational-level theme in the review's synthesis, supported by multiple studies including Bakah et al. (2012), Dickerson et al. (2014), Houghton et al. (2015), Rienties, Brouwer, and Lygo-Baker (2013), and Schuck et al. (2013); both Bakah et al. and Kosnik et al. identified heavy workload as a challenge.

"Moreover, teams often find it difficult to find the time to meet or finish a training"

Discussion¶

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