Influence of improvisation education to teamwork abilities based on competency

With the complexity of society, it is changing into where sudden and irregular problems are becoming more frequent. In the society based on this uncertainty, it is important to demonstrate teamwork that can be flexible and appropriate to respond to unexpected problems. Furthermore, the society is becoming diverse nowadays, and teams frequently include members from many different countries, fields, and cultures. To carry out projects in this society, it is necessary to understand the characteristics and preferences of the individuals who belong to the team to perform well under unexpected circumstances. This paper focused on the change in performance of each participant before and after Oh My God Experience (OMG), which is an improvisation education throughout the Cross-cultural Engineering Project (CEP) based on global Project-Based Learning (gPBL). Each participant of the CEP at SIT in 2019 and KMUTT in 2020 answered a questionnaire on how the individual ability (Team-oriented, Backup, Monitoring and Leadership) affects the performance in the team. Furthermore, the competency of the participants was measured by Progress Report On Generic skills (PROG) after the CEP. The results of the questionnaire were compared with the results of the PROG to analyze the correlation between them. The result showed that participants who answered that the team-oriented skills were important or difficult before and after the OMG scored higher on the PROG with a significant difference in "Attunement" and "Harmony" than those who answered that they were not. This suggests that they found them difficult during the OMG because they were aware of them, and that they are in the stage of conscious maturation. Alternatively, the participants who answered that it was important or difficult before and after the OMG scored lower on the PROG with a significant difference in “Autonomy” than those who answered otherwise. This may be because they are in the stage of unconscious maturation and are not aware that they are important or difficult.