Hypothesis Testing And Results On Team Or Group Development
The research entities included a twelve and an eleven-member T-group. Students in their senior or junior years at the school were the subjects of the investigations (Kingdon, 1974). The trainer asked the students to compare the closeness of each paired groups. The teacher also required the students to assign eighty points in case of high closeness and twenty points to low closeness. The trainer repeated the experiment after eight weeks lasting for one hour and thirty minutes. The comments of the subjects (students) at the end of the first test indicated that negative aspects of psychological distance and closeness were starting to reduce. The decreasing, mean values prove that the students were embracing reciprocity in interpreting their interactions with other learners in the teams.
Results
Tables 1 and 2 indicate the results for testing the first and the second hypothesis. Table 1: Of the eleven and twelve subjects, the mean values deviate from 130.57 to 109.41 and 160.41 to 115.86 respectively. The results indicate that the increase in team interactions reduces the sociological definition of a group. Table 2: The mean values for the eleven and twelve members of the subjects reduce from 136.00 to 90.00 and 187.42 to 121.82 respectively. The decrease in values indicates that the increase in team interactions increases the reciprocity aspects of a dyadic relationship.
Conclusion
According to the comments of the students and the data from the two tables, the subjects started and continued to feel a sense of belonging in their teams. Therefore, the members began accepting and appreciating the input of one another. Additionally, the close interrelationship between the students grew day by day. The continued interactions lead to the aspect of reciprocity among the subjects. The students started to like the company of one another.
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