That is very similar to what I do when the student knows they will miss a RAT in advance – The student takes the IRAT in advance and shares the team grade. However, I also require the student to participate in the GRAT by writing notes for their team. I pass those notes on to the team for use during the GRAT session. That way, the team can still evaluate the student’s preparedness and, to a lesser extent, contributions for that day, and the student does not get a team grade for free.
Tammy Tobin
Susquehanna University
On 2/21/12 1:52 PM, "Paul Koles" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Amanda: Yours is an important question, because it involves both accountability to teammates and professional behavior. Here's what we do:
a) students who know in advance they will miss TBL and have obtained an excused absence from student affairs office (e.g., attending a meeting where they will present a poster): take the IRAT before they leave (full credit) and receive the grade earned by their team for GRAT and applications. This policy assumes and expects the person taking the IRAT early will not violate honor code by sharing any portion of the IRAT with others in the class. Students are also expected to notify their teammates in advance about why and when they will be absent.
b) students who miss the TBL session because of an unexpected event considered to be a legitimate excuse by the office of student affairs: take the IRAT within 2 "business days" after returning to campus. Again, honor code and professional trust assume that the person will not seek or receive help from those who have already taken the RAT. They receive their own grade for IRAT plus whatever their team earned on GRAT and application. Legitimate excuses: car broke down 5 miles from school, loved one in immediate family has a medical emergency or dies, student went to emergency room to be treated for traumatic injury or serious acute illness. Non-legitimate excuses: "I thought the TBL started at 3pm", "my girlfriend is in town only for 6 hours", "I had to take my friend to the airport", "my hangnail is hurting", etc. We have found that if someone doesn't show up for TBL, their teammates will usually call that person's cell and try to find out why they are missing.
Critical points:
1. taking IRAT before leaving for a scheduled out-of-town event is the responsible thing to do (not after one returns).
2. all reasons for being absent are adjudicated by the office of student affairs, using uniform criteria. Our experience is that various faculty doing TBL will have various degrees of sympathy or toughness in evaluating students' reasons for being absent; accordingly, the evaluation of excuses is better done by someone who is not running the TBL sessions and who is experienced in dealing with the full range of explanations provided by students.
Grading:
1. for approved absences under (a) and (b), student gets full credit for everything.
2. for non-approved absences, student gets a zero for that TBL session and does not take the IRAT (no credit for individual or team components of the grade)
This is not gospel, just the way we try to develop professional behavior in our students. /PK
On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Emke, Amanda R. wrote:
I have a question for the group. Every year, we have students miss TBL sessions because of illness or being out of town for conferences. Because there are very few mandatory experiences at our school (outside of exams, almost none), students do not, and sometimes cannot, avoid missing sessions.
How are absences handled?
Amanda
Amanda R. Emke, MD
Instructor, Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care & Hospital Medicine
Associate Fellowship Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care
Course Master, Pre-Clinical Pediatrics
St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University Physicians
Washington University School of Medicine
One Children's Place, Northwest Tower, Campus Box 8116
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314)454-2527
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