Student team projects in information systems development: Measuring collective creative efficacy

Appointing Team Leads for Student Software Development Projects

Team-based software development projects can be an important component of an undergraduate computer science experience. Student teams sometimes fail, however, due to inadequate initiative, communication, and organization. Students used to individual work often do not recognize the extent of the coordination required to get their team operating in tandem, and in many cases may be reluctant to in...

Creative Collective Efficacy in Scientific Communities

Abstract Studying collective creativity is critical for understanding how groups, organizations, and communities innovate and progress over time. However, analyzing creativity at the collective level remains an open and challenging issue. We adapt Bandura’s construct of collective efficacy to understand beliefs about collective capacities for creativity among individual members part of scientif...

Exploring the Role of Self-efficacy, Playfulness, and Creative Self-efficacy in Information Systems Development

In this paper we argue that successful information systems development requires creative problem solving skills, and present two cognitive factors, selfefficacy, and creative self-efficacy, and one affective factor, playfulness, as three key personal factors that aid creative problem solving during information systems development (ISD). A research model to support our argument is constructed sy...

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Student Team Creativity in Information System Development: Social Capital Perspective

Creative teams can help software companies to grow and to obtain advantage. It is important for contemporary educational units to increase student team creativity in information system development and provide training for student teams to product creative results. A survey design was selected to collect data and test the proposed model. Thirty-six teams (204 students) enrolling in an informatio...