We never change scores on the iRAT, but do change. gRAT score for a
team that has successfully appealed a question-but only the team that
does the appeal. D
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On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Henriikka Clarkeburn <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> We also have used iRATs on Blackboard and have found a 3rd party
> tool Respondus to do the trick of uploading the questions while
> retaining a printable copy for the T-RAT in class. Once familiar
> with Blackboard I have found the uploading relatively simple.
>
> Interested to hear more about changing marks after a succesful
> appeal, sounds way too tedious to it by hand. I am sure a technical
> solution can be found!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Henriikka
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> From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Alexandra Albright [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, 29 November 2009 4:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Accomodating test-takers who need more time
>
> I have also moved to Blackboard for my law school iRATs. The
> advantage is that we don’t have to use valuable class time for the i
> RAT and can go straight to the gRAT. We have a strong honor code at
> the law school, so I don’t worry about cheating enough to make that
> a deal-killer. And my RATs are open book (as is the exam)—they ten
> d to be harder questions than most TBL-ers use. I use the RAT to fo
> ster discussion in solving the problems as well as getting the basic
> info learned.
>
> The downside is that we find Blackboard very clunky I have not had
> a chance to talk to our Blackboard people yet, but some issues are:
>
> 1. After a successful appeal, is there an easy way to change
> the grade on the iRat? So far, it appears that I have to go into
> each quiz, find out how the person answered the question, and then
> make the change by hand.
>
> 2. When cutting and pasting my word doc into the Blackboard
> test-maker the fonts got all confused and it was a mess. The second
> time, I wrote the quiz on Blackboard, but then I could not figure
> out how to get a reasonable paper copy of the RAT to hand out in
> class to use during gRATs. My secretary cut and pasted off of
> Blackboard before class, which is a pain.
>
> 3. You have to be really careful to make sure the students are
> not shown their grade or the statistics after the iRAT. I didn’t hi
> t the right button last quiz, and in the gRAT, I found some students
> trying to game the statistics to figure out the right answer. It g
> ot even crazier because I had miskeyed an answer on Blackboard, so t
> he kids trying to use the statistics were conned into the wrong answ
> er. [I’m also trying to figure out how to deal with that miskeying
> on Blackboard…]
>
> I would love to hear if any of you have used Blackboard with better
> results. All in all, unless I can get some answers from Blackboard
> that make this easy, I’ll have to go back to the scantrons. Maybe h
> and them out to the students before class.
>
> By the way, my civil procedure class LOVES the RATs. They would
> really like to have one each week…. They see it as practice for the
> many multiple choice exams that they face during their law school c
> areers and a way to get early feedback (most law school classes only
> grade a final exam).
>
> Alex Albright
> Univ of Texas Law
>
> From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Tim Connors
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Accomodating test-takers who need more time
>
> I have only just recently begun experimenting with TBL but in all my
> classes I have moved individual quizzes/exams/RATs to Blackboard. I
> used to worry about cheating by doing this but in the past 4-5 years
> of doing things things way I have seen literally no difference in
> the overall scores between taking them in-class or electronically.
> I would like to attribute this to the first question on all my
> electronic quizzes, etc., which asks students to verify that they
> aren't cheating (pangs of conscience) but the more likely reason is
> that my classes tend to have mostly majors and minors who don't want
> to risk being caught.
>
> By moving to Blackboard I am able to give the students a larger
> window during which to take the quiz/exam/RAT (usually 24-36 hours)
> and I can set the timer for each assignment to accommodate the time-
> and-a-half some test-takers need. I also have the completion time
> 30-60 minutes before my class begins so that I can review individual
> responses before tQuizzes/tRATs.
>
> Tim
>
> Timothy D. Connors
> Professor of Theatre
> Central Michigan University
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