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| Date: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:43:50 -0500 |
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I am trying TBL for the first time this year. I teach an optics course for entering optometry students. There are 120 students in the class.
Today we took a practice RAT. When we go to the appeals process, they stumped me. I made it clear (I thought) that only teams can appeal and that a successful appeal means the team gets credit for the missed item and any individual who chose that answer would also get credit on the individual RAT.
But then they asked: can the team appeal on behalf of a team member? In other words, if the team overall is happy with the answer, but one student can make an argument that a second answer is really correct as well, can the team make a case for that person and have him get credit for his answer?
My initial thought is NO, because the point is to learn how to critically think about the question and reach a concensus, not get as many points back as possible. But if the team really can argue that there are two “good” answers, what’s my defense here?
Thanks for any thoughts, and I’ll be happy to clarify if this doesn’t make sense.
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John Mark Jackson, OD, MS, FAAO
Southern College of Optometry
(901) 722-3314
Skype: jacksonsco
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