Perceptions of an active learning experiment insmall-team environment

Team-based learning, is a learner-centred, instructor-directed strategy that incorporates class-based teamwork and assessment to enhance active learning and critical thinking. The aim of this study is to analyze the perceptions of Business Administration students who have been actively involved in an active team based learning course.With this aim; sophomore students have been asked about their perceptions about team-based learning both in the beginning and at the end of the semester after attenting a ‘Multinational Corporations’ course. An average of 35 students have answered the questions based on how they feel about having small team environment and student taught lectures as part of the method of delivering a course, about whether they have the abilities to evaulate text, develop a lecture, make a presentation , apply theory to a specific case and present a topic to the class. The results indicate that perceptions of students change about team work, they also develop skills required to work in small teams, particularly presentation and lecture developing skills. The results of the study provide us information on how to develop new skills and methods to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of small-team members.