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I have not seen anyone mention the use of rubrics. With a clear rubric that is provided to the students in advance of the assignment (I suggest the same rubric is used for all team assignments). If the application exercise results in a concept map of sorts, you can grade those using the same rubric in about 5-10 minutes depending on how many comments you want/need to add. With 7 persons in a team you can grade 10 teams (70 students in a class) in 1 to 2 hours.


Harry


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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paula Monaghan-Nichols
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Grading Application Exercises

I am the Human Genetics course Director for the University of  
Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Genetics is a 4 week course and we  
have 6 TBLS. TBLs account for 40% of their final grade and here is  
how we break up their TBL grade. We give 10% for IRAT, 10% for GRAT,  
5% for Peer evaluation and 15% for the application. The application  
grade is automatic and students get it for just taking part and  
completing the application. There is no formal grade and the only way  
their 15% application grade can decrease is if they miss an  
application exercise. We felt that the students would appreciate the  
application exercise and learn more,  if the stress of getting graded  
was removed. The GRAT and IRAT are MCQs graded with bubble sheets and  
IFAT sheets respectively.

Best wishes
Paula Monaghan-Nichols
On Jun 17, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Jodi Delfosse wrote:

> At the Medical College of Wisconsin, we are transitioning to TBL as  
> the primary
> method of student engagement as we are at the same time integrating  
> our
> basic and clinical sciences in the first two years.  We've read  
> what we can
> from a variety of sources, including searching this listserve, but  
> are still not
> clear on whether institutions actually grade (or assign points) the  
> application
> exercise