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Sandy,

 

I reward the best performing team, based upon average T-RAT scores. The
team with the highest T-RAT average (we generally do about 8-10 per
semester) gets a gift certificate to a local sandwich shop. This allows
them to share the prize and promotes team performance versus individual
performance. The students enjoy the competition element and also enjoy
that it's the team competing against other teams and not individuals
(which can get cut-throat).

 

Sincerely,

 

Tom

 

Tom Cappaert, PhD, ATC, CSCS

Associate Professor, Athletic Training Education Program

Central Michigan University

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From: Team Learning Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Sandy Cook
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 7:37 PM
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Subject: Top Score Prize

 

On an new topic, one of our faculty suggested that it is the culture
here to award Prizes to the top student.  Since we feel that TBL values
teamwork and that prizes bring back the competition element - we really
thought it was not a good idea.  As we discussed further, we flirted
with the idea that we could incentives the prize concept by making it be
a reflection of both team and individual work. The student's disagreed.
They thought that any prize would change the dynamics of the group work.
In fact, they came to our program because of the team and collaborative
experience and did not want the cut-throat team issues.

 

Any one have ideas how you reward top students without undermining the
teamwork values?

 

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Sandy Cook, PhD
Associate Dean for Curriculum Development
Duke/NUS Graduate School of Medicine