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Herb:

Two suggestions:

1) It sounds like your RATs are easier than mine, in order to make the T-RAT
work well, I want the I-RATs to be pretty difficult (to give the students
something tough enough on the T-RATs so that they'll need to carefully
reason their answers.  Thus, it's understood by the students that I will
routinely "curve" or rescale their I-RAT scores.  If my mean grade for the
I-RATs was much above 6 out of 10, then I'd be looking at T-RAT scores that
were almost all 9's and 10's.

2) I've never had the individual component of the grade be less than 50% (if
not usually at least 60%).  I want the teams to be there for learning but
want the grade to be driven mostly by individual performance.  Thus, I set
minimums for the percentage weights for individual performance activities.
(This seems to be what Michaelsen does as well.)

Best,

Fritz
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Subject: Re: iRAT/gRAT

While we're on the subject does anyone have a plan or correction for
people who constantly do poorly on the iRAT but then benefit from the
group on the T-RAT's. I had students last semester who consistently got
6 out of 10 points or less on every iRAT. However since the class gave
more weight to T-RAT's they were able to offset their low individual
score with the higher team score (the lowest usually being 12 out of 15
points).

Juli Dunn wrote:
> Can anyone suggest better names for the readiness assessment tests?
> For whatever reason I would like something that doesn't spell RAT. I
> have played with iRAQ (other issues) and gRAQ. Any suggestions woudl
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Juli
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Herb Coleman,Director
Instructional Computing and Technology
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Austin Community College
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Austin, TX 78752
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