Kent,
I like to give the students some control over how the grading is to occur. This is an incredibly powerful way to get "buy in" from the class. I will often give them some parameters, for instance: at least 50% must come from the iRATs. From there, they can vote on how many points are assigned to each activity.
In some of the shorter applications that are outside of a comprehensive TBL course, I will assign extra credit points based on a combination of iRAT and gRAT scores. Sometimes I'll give points for correct answers during the Team Application Activities. The students appreciate going into an exam with a few EC points to be added on.
The approach that I enjoy the most is simply giving away prizes for the best performing teams. I have given away things like books, pen lights, reflex hammers, coffee cups, calculators, candy, and lottery tickets. At one workshop I even gave away bottles of tequila! (of course, it's not such a good idea to do this with students.)
I have found that, if there is not some type of reward for their work they stop taking it seriously.
I hope this helps.
Bob
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-----Original Message-----
From: Team Learning Discussion List on behalf of Sibley, Jim
Sent: Sat 9/20/2008 3:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Grading team exercises
Hi Kent
Some instructor do not grade team exercises....some do
If your activities uses a team worksheet....i.e a series of activities and choices....then you can have the team provide some short rationale for their decisions....might just mark that they did it....not specifically the quality of the thinking....hopefully any variables in quality are addressed in reporting discussion
Some people do the reflective kind of "one minute paper" with a question like maybe "what is the most importnat thing you learned?".....again you might just checked that it is done....not specifically the quality
I have one instructor who does this kind of thing....but only looks at them if a student with 79....comes at course end and wants 80
In a lot of our courses....the activities are ungraded
Hope that helps
Jim Sibley
Centre for Instructional Support
Faculty of Applied Science
University of British Columbia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Team Learning Discussion List on behalf of Kent Fisher
Sent: Sat 20/09/2008 11:40 AM
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Subject: Grading team exercises
From reading books and articles, and some of the archives here, it's
apparent that some instructors don't grade team application exercises. For
those who do: how do you grade them? I'm thinking of both the "one-topic"
exercises that ask teams to make a choice from a list of options, then
defend their choice in the general class discussion. Is the choice graded?
That seems to be against the spirit of TBL, somehow. Is the defense graded,
instead? Something else? I'm mystified.
The integrative exercises seem more grade-able to me, since there is more
likely to be some team "product" to evaluate. Does anyone have any example
they can share with me?
Regards,
Kent Fisher
Columbus State Community College
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