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Do all teams pick the same, the right, answer?  If they don't all pick the same answer, you have a place to facilitate a cross-team discussion of the pros and cons of the various answers.  If they all pick the same, the right, answer, you can still facilitate a discussion.  You're trying to get them to explain their thinking out loud so that others can hear it.  Sometimes, my teams come to the same answer for different reasons and sometimes they pick the right answer for the wrong reasons.   You can ask things like... why not B?  what were you thinking about when you chose A?  Also, if I'm doing multiple choice question application exercises, I typically have 6-8 MCQs ready for a 50 min class.  Some questions go very quickly. Others take longer.  For example, when I pose a question about 'negative reinforcement' discussions can take quite a while.  It's a tricky concept and there are always teams that get it wrong... they think that negative reinforcement is just like punishment, which it's not.  One other suggestion, have them do some preparatory work individually first... so they have invested in it and done some thinking on their own... then bring them into their teams (like the IRAT/ TRAT).  Karla

From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carson, Ron
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:19 PM
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Subject: Time Length for Application Exercises

I have 27 graduate occupational therapy students.  I'm finding that the application exercises are only taking about 15 minutes for the group work and then maybe 15 minutes in discussion.  Surely, I must be doing something wrong.  I have a 2 hour class tomorrow morning with the same students and all I have scheduled are 2 application exercises.

I feel like the exercises are vague and difficult enough and students must pick only one of 4 possible answers. Yet, they arrive at the answer very quickly and there's not a lot of  group debate about why one team choice this or one team chose that.

What do I need to do different?

Thanks

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Ron Carson MHS, OT
Assistant Professor
Occupational Therapy Department
Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences
671 Winyah Drive
Orlando, FL 32803
407.303.9182
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