The remaining eleven weeks of the semester were devoted to team-based,
project-oriented learning, following the studio-based learning model. The projects
increased in scale and scope throughout the semester. During the one-week projects,
teams were formed by the instructors using different methods which were opaque to the
students: random assignment, by major, by gender, and by cumulative GPA. This
maximized interstudent collaboration and also allowed us to observe how different groups
interacted for a concurrent qualitative study for which data analysis is ongoing