Hello,
I have had generally good experiences with having students who need extra time take their iRAT in another room and then come into class. This last semester, it turned out that I had allowed enough time for a student coming from another building to get to class a few minutes early and when I arrived, she was being grilled by some other students - this ended abruptly.... (She confirmed this when I checked in with her after class.) I adjusted the time at which she should start her test and made sure I arrived well before she could. This would not solve for someone texting/emailing content if they were absolutely determined to, I suspect. I do not have the resources to have someone walk the student over and am not sure I would wish to do so.
Liz Winter, Ph.D., LSW
Academic Coordinator and Clinical Assistant Professor
Child Welfare Education for Leadership Program
School of Social Work
University of Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jenny Morris
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 3:13 AM
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Subject: Re: time for Tests
We have students who need extra time, separate room and sometimes a reader and TBL has not hindered this in any way.
For the extra time our University regs. allow us to,build in extra time for all students so this is what we do and it works well. We allow 25 minutes for 13 test questions and this includes 5 minutes extra time. This seems to have been enough time but we have only run TBL for two years so I would also welcome hearing from others about the time allowed. In our experience the majority of the students complete well within this time. We allow 40 minutes for the team tests but typically teams finish earlier.
I organise the separate rooms/reader through our exam office and this works well. We can do this as our tests form the summative assessment. The start time for our students is usually 1000 and 9.15 for those in separate room etc. which gives them time to do the test and then get to the room to join their team in time for the team test.
I run five groups simultaneously across two geographical locations and so far we have not had problems with this. However for the first time, this year we have had one instance of cheating! Has anyone else had this?
Best wishes
Jenny
Dr Jenny Morris
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) Health Studies Faculty of Health & Human Sciences Plymouth University Knowledge Spa Truro Cornwall TR1 3HD
> On 4 Jun 2014, at 20:07, "David Edwards" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I have a question regarding the time interval given to students for the to complete the individual iRAT. Specifically what to do with students who present with a learning disability that necessitates extended time frames to complete tests.
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> I have only used TBL for one semester in a 180 person course. I tended to give more time than I thought was needed to complete the iRAT, simply to make sure to accommodate the 5 students who presented me with paper work for added time.
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> Any feedback would be great.
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> Thanks
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