Work in progress — Taking one for the team: Goal orientation and gender-correlated task division

Assessments of student behavior in firstsemester design experiences suggest that early team-based design projects can promote a team performance goal orientation that undermines students´ learning goals. In particular, we find that gender-correlated division of work can easily and unconsciously occur in these teams and that performance-oriented teams may be more likely to undermine womens´ learning goals then mens´ learning goals. We propose mechanisms to explain the effect and present results of promising interventions.