Contents I. Introduction
Commitment is a construct that features several dimensions and is often classified along the lines of organizational commitment, professional commitment, and team commitment. [1]–[3]. Organizational and professional commitment has been extensively researched [3]. Organizational commitment is characterized as the extent of an employee’s involvement in an organization and the strength of their identification with the same organization. It has been positively associated with the employee retention [4]. Commitment is an important aspect of teamwork. Team commitment is an intrinsic inclination of a team member toward their team [5]. Team Commitment has also been identified as one of the important scrum values. The concept of commitment has been studied widely in an organizational setting, but very few studies have been conducted in a higher education setting [6], [7]. Thus, this study intends to characterize the team commitment in sophomore-level system analysis and design course. The course follows a cooperative project-based learning approach. Student teams are trained on scrum principles, and they follow the scrum approach throughout the semester. The students must complete a semi-capstone project and deliver a prototype as the final course deliverable. Accordingly, the research question for this study is: How can team commitment be characterized in a sophomore-level system analysis and design course among the student teams? The manuscript is structured as follows: i) Section II discussed the literature pertaining to project-based learning and team commitment; ii) Section III detailed the characteristics of the participants, data collection and analysis methods adopted; iii) Section IV provided the quantitative and qualitative results of the study; iv) Section V discussed the results in the context of literature, and v) Section VI concluded the manuscript while also detailing the limitations and future avenues of inquiry.
