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Michael Raiber is a professor of conducting in the School of Music here at
Oklahoma.  Last fall he sent me some data on the difference between team
scores and the average member score on an early RAT (see below).

Question:  Is this similar to what the rest of you experience with you give
RATs?

Another interesting question is how the team score compares to the best
member of the group.  Usually the difference is not that large early in the
term.  But as the teams become more cohesive, the teams go further in
outscoring even the best individual scores.
         Is this what you are experiencing, or not?

Dee Fink




>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:26:35 -0500
>From: Michael Raiber <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: FYI
>To: Dee Fink <[log in to unmask]>
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>Dee-
>
>I gave a practice RAT in my conducting course today and got some very
>interesting results I thought you might be interested in knowing.  The
>following are the percentage increases of the team scores over the average
>individual scores of each team:
>
>1 - +20%
>2 - +15%
>3 - +25%
>4 - +56%
>5 - +50%
>6 - +20%
>7 - +40%
>8 - +5%
>
>Average gain in scores: 28.8%
>
>There are obviously a number of reasons for this, but any time we find an
>instructional design that can show this level of gains in student outcomes,
>it is powerful.
>
>Just thought you would like the data.
>
>Mike
>--
>Michael A. Raiber, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>Music Education
>The University of Oklahoma
>Catlett Music Center
>500 W. Boyd
>Norman, OK  72069
>(405)325-3323


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Author of:  Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
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