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Dear Suzie,
I've talked with a number of faculty who have faced similar situations and all of them have had good success by: 1) Using the grade-weight setting exercise and, 2) Explicitly stating that to get a pass students have to get a pass in ALL THREE GRADE COMPONENTS (i.e., individual performance, team performance and a peer evaluation). In most cases, the faculty members did not know until after submitting the grades which enrollment option students were in AND COULDN'T TELL BASED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE.
Larry
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Larry K. Michaelsen
Professor of Management
University of Central Missouri
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>>> Suzie Lavallee <[log in to unmask]> 06/04/10 1:51 PM >>>
Hello
I teach an 3rd year undergraduate course in conservation which has an
enrollment of about 60 people (estimated 100+ in 2011), approximately half
of whom take the course as a required component of their degree, the other
half who take it as an elective.
Next year, our institution is enacting a credit/d/fail status for courses
that are taken as electives and my course will have the status applied to
it. More than half of the students in my course will be able to take it for
credit/d/fail status instead of a letter grade, the others will not have
this option.
Although I would like to revamp the course to use team-based learning next
year, I am wary of the influence that the credit/d/fail status may have on
group work and individual motivation.
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has some experience and/or has
conducted research on this type of situation.
Cheers,
Suzie Lavallee
Suzie Lavallee, PhD
Lecturer, Natural Resources Conservation Program
Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia
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