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Hi all,

As the semester winds down, I was thinking about making the last class
meeting (which will be mostly review) a sort of team competition. That
is, as a way of reviewing the semester's material, have teams compete
to answer review questions. I have thirteen teams and they typically
use whiteboards to report their application answers so I guess I'm
thinking something like the first team to raise their whiteboard gets
the chance to answer the question (of course, a 'good' answer will
depend on their justification of their choice). I'm just curious if
anyone has done something like this and if so, a) do you think it was
a useful exercise and b) how exactly did you set things up (e.g., did
you let the team decide who on the team would answer for the team or
is it better to pick someone randomly; if the team's response isn't
that great, how do you choose another team to challenge, etc.)? I
guess my concern is that after a semester of encouraging students to
get input from everyone on their team to craft a consensus, creating a
competition might lead them to just rely on their 'strongest' member
to simply answer for them.

thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Imazeki
Department of Economics
San Diego State University
homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/
Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com