Link between faculty group development and elementary student performance on standardized tests.

Until lately neither American school cultures nor business agricultures valued teamwork (Johnson, 1990; Kanter, 1983; Sergiovanni, 1992; Walton, 1985) Now, however, teamwork abounds in the one and the other contexts. Change came first to business organizations. The shift in focus from the individual worker to teamwork emerg in part, from a growing awareness of the character of groups in facilitating or blocking individual and organizational effectiveness. This turn also was fueled by the business ne to find fresh methods to compete in a global economy and the fact that the complexity of work at this