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Hi Kent

Some instructor do not grade team exercises....some do

If your activities uses a team worksheet....i.e a series of activities and choices....then you can have the team provide some short rationale for their decisions....might just mark that they did it....not specifically the quality of the thinking....hopefully any variables in quality are addressed in reporting discussion

Some people do the reflective kind of "one minute paper" with a question like maybe "what is the most importnat thing you learned?".....again you might just checked that it is done....not specifically the quality

I have one instructor who does this kind of thing....but only looks at them if a student with 79....comes at course end and wants 80

In a lot of our courses....the activities are ungraded

Hope that helps

Jim Sibley
Centre for Instructional Support
Faculty of Applied Science
University of British Columbia
604-822-9241



-----Original Message-----
From: Team Learning Discussion List on behalf of Kent Fisher
Sent: Sat 20/09/2008 11:40 AM
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Subject: Grading team exercises
 
From reading books and articles, and some of the archives here, it's
apparent that some instructors don't grade team application exercises. For
those who do: how do you grade them? I'm thinking of both the "one-topic"
exercises that ask teams to make a choice from a list of options, then
defend their choice in the general class discussion. Is the choice graded?
That seems to be against the spirit of TBL, somehow. Is the defense graded,
instead? Something else? I'm mystified.

The integrative exercises seem more grade-able to me, since there is more
likely to be some team "product" to evaluate. Does anyone have any example
they can share with me?

Regards,

Kent Fisher
Columbus State Community College