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I have received the same pushback many times.  My shorthand to rebut in-class requests for individual appeals is that the question must have been written well enough for a majority of your team members to agree on the correct answer.  Appeals are for questions that everybody can agree have problems (more than one best answer, no correct answer, covers unimportant topic).  I do make sure to spend some time with that material in the mini-lecture following the end of the RAT to address their misunderstanding though.

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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew W Keitt
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 8:05 AM
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Subject: Individual appeals

I know that appeals are only granted to teams, but I'm have some push back on this policy and am having trouble justifying it. Let's say there are two answers and there is a good case to be made that they are equally plausible-the team picks the "correct" answer, but the individual student, although she has made a good argument for her choice, is out of luck. In a big class it's not feasible to entertain each individual appeal, but apart from logistics I'm having a hard time justifying it. 

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to deal with this?

Thanks!

Andrew Keitt