Team tutorial action program for the development of teamwork competencies in university students

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58179/SSWR9101

Keywords:

teamwork, prosocial behavior, team tutoring, university, teacher mediation

Abstract

This article presents an innovative teaching experience aimed at promoting university students' self-learning and the development of prosocial behaviors and teamwork. This program is a team-based mentoring program, mediated by faculty, centered around a collaborative project to design, develop, and implement a proposal for social improvement based on the professional profile of the degree program. To evaluate the impact of the mentoring program, a sample of 222 first-year students from the Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Psychology, and Nursing programs at Francisco de Vitoria University was selected. The results show significant differences in the development of teamwork skills between students who received the mentoring program and those who did not. We can conclude that the scheduled tutoring program is suitable for developing intrapersonal and interpersonal teamwork skills in university students, serving as a space for teaching and learning the prosocial behaviors (mindfulness, active listening, assertive communication, and respect) necessary for teamwork and, therefore, for interpersonal relationships. Likewise, the teacher's mediating role is key to enabling students to discover the opportunities of working with others and to decide individually and collaboratively to take the necessary actions based on these discoveries.

Author Biographies

  • María Fernanda Gambarini Duarte, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain

    María Fernanda Gambarini Duarte. PhD in Education, Complutense University of Madrid. Graduate in Pedagogy, University of Navarra. She has nine years of professional experience in management and leadership of educational centers and 14 years as a teacher and researcher in the field of teaching competencies and leadership. She is currently an assistant professor and researcher in the Permanent Research Group on Personal Skills and Competencies; Leadership Education at EDULID. She has also participated as a researcher in the competitive projects: "Gamification of Personal Skills and Competencies" and "Creation of Learning Challenges in Personal Skills and Competencies as Tools for Assessing Innovative Teaching Competencies." She has also
    participated as a researcher in teaching innovation projects: "Collaborative project of peer support through the complementarity of face-to-face and online teaching; approved and valued as Q1 (97.83 points), and "Collaborative and interdisciplinary project to improve teaching communication" approved and valued as Q2 (85.2375 points). She is the principal investigator in the teaching innovation project: Mediated Learning Experience (EAM) through regulated team tutoring and its impact on the climate and relationship in the classroom. Co-author of the book Working Tool for the Development of the Subject Skills and Competencies of the Person (01/14/2020; UFV Editorial). She has participated in international conferences and in the publication of scientific articles and book chapters in SPI publishers (all Q1).

  • Marian Queiruga Dios, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain

    Marian Queiruga Dios. Cum Laude from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, and currently a professor and mentor for the subject "Skills and Competencies of the Person" and Research Manager at the Institute for Accompaniment. She has published several articles in the fields of social responsibility, service learning, and personal skills through educational innovation. Her most recent articles include: "Project-Based Learning (PBL)
    and its Impact on the Development of Interpersonal Competencies in Higher Education" (2022), which presents a comparative study of the impact and acquisition of skills through this methodology; "Assessment Methods for Service-Learning Projects in Engineering in Higher Education: A Systematic Review" (2021), which highlights the importance of service learning in teaching the common good at university level; Education for Social Responsibility: New Challenges in Higher Education (2020), in which agile methodologies such as Flipped Classroom motivate students in teaching human values, or A Virus Infected Your Laptop: Let's Play an Escape Game (2020), in which the most essential personal and professional skills for students are reinforced through a game-based learning methodology. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project on "Gamification of the subject of Personal Skills and Competencies." She also has extensive experience in mentoring and mentoring projects since 2016, having mentored more than 400 students in their first and second years of their degree.

  • Tasio Pérez Salido, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain

    Tasio Pérez Salido. He holds a degree in Psychology with a clinical specialty from the Complutense University of Madrid. He completed postgraduate training in the master’s degree in Bioethics from the Catholic University of San Antonio de Murcia and the Specialist Degree in Family and Couple Therapy from the Pontifical University of
    Comillas. He has been a university professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca and currently at the UFV. Since 2006, he has taught various subjects in nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, psychology, criminology, and design, among others, providing over 16 years of teaching experience. He teaches classes in the master’s degree in Bioethics and in the master’s degree in Coloproctology and Stomatherapy Nursing, as well as in the expert course on comprehensive care for intestinal dysfunction. He works as a lecturer, providing training to various groups (schools, associations, institutions, etc.). He is currently a researcher in a permanent research group on the Gamification of the Subject of Personal Skills and Competencies. His research career has also been reflected
    in his participation in international conferences and the publication of scientific articles and book chapters with SPI publishing houses. He also combines his clinical psychology practice with his university work, providing a comprehensive field of research and training in the soft skills he pursues in both fields. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Salamanca in the "Training in the Knowledge Society" program. He is a member of various innovation and research groups on competence-related topics and is a researcher at the Center for Family Studies at the Institute of Economic and Social Activities and at the Institute of Bioethics, both at Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV). He also collaborates with the CEU Family Studies Institute.

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2025-06-30

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025): June Issue

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Gambarini Duarte, M. F., Queiruga Dios, M., & Pérez Salido, T. (2025). Team tutorial action program for the development of teamwork competencies in university students. Sociology and Social Work Review, 9(1), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.58179/SSWR9101