I had a student come to me last week to talk about her i-rat performance. She said that when she takes the test with the team she totally understands why the correct answer is correct, but when she's on her own, she feels like she is second-guessing things [facts?](and probably not using the same type of critical thinking as she does with the group). We ended up having a great discussion about the purpose of the tests, my overall goal for them to understand concepts, not facts. She told me she is a kinesthetic learner, so I asked her if she had used mind-mapping before and she perked up and said that would probably help her a lot - to draw the information from different parts of the text and connect it in non-linear ways, which is what seems to happen during the team-processing of the RATs. I shared this idea with the class, and hope that it helps some of the students who are still in the habit of memorizing information instead of applying it.
Judi Bradetich
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Subject: Re: Individual Student wants to go over his IRATs - what do you tell him?
Hi Tony,
I have had this happen with International students or students where English is a second language. Some of them truly wish to understand the material better, and did not understand how the team and class reached a decision, because the discussion went too quickly for them to capture the information. For these students, a one-on-one meeting can be a rich and in-depth discussion of the material. For others, I've discovered during our one-on-one session that the student has a closed mind to learning and is nagging for more points. After giving some basic tips about how to study and take my RATs, I end those sessions. I reiterate to both types of students that the purpose of the IRAT is to prepare for hands-on material done later in class, and my RATs are a low percentage of the overall class grade.
Mary McCord
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Anthony Mento <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hello,
i have a student who has done very poorly on his first two IRATs; his team however has done a very good job.
He wants me to go over his individual IRAT responses. I hesitated to do this, telling him he went over each question with his team on the TRAT on which they received immediate feedback.
I wonder how you have treated this issue?
Thanks,
Tony Mento
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