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Hi Elizabeth,

I need some clarification here. Am I understanding you right? I was believing that the Application Exercises are more about applying course concepts to situations in order to promote deep learning and that these Application Exercises are not assigned a mark or else they become merely "group work" which is contrary to TBL. When group work is assigned marks it becomes a competition between students and learning suffers. If it is group work it needs to be called such. We know what happens when projects that are better completed individually are assigned marks as group work. 

tom

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On 2013-09-09, at 3:46 PM, Elizabeth Oldland wrote:

> Hello Sonia
> We consider the TBL sessions scheduled university "examinations" and provide the students with the following information:
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> All TBL sessions are scheduled university assessments. Any session missed will require a medical certificate provided to the unit chair in order for the student to undertake a supplementary test on the content of the missed session.  No supplementary assessment or marks will be awarded for a test missed without a medical certificate, or without the prior approval of the unit chair. Please advise the unit chair of absence within 72 hours of the missed session in line with university guidelines for inability to attend an examination.
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> I give them an alternate test of IRATs and a few much higher level application exercises (worth more marks) that they take in my office. Over the years, I have a developed a bank of these and they are ready to go each year. Then the score they get is converted to a percentage score (eg. 9/12 = 75%). Their allocated grade for that week's i-RAT, t-RAT and App Ex exercises is each adjusted to the percentage score achieved from the maximum marks allocated to each section. E.G., if the IRATs are out of 8, they would get 75% of 8 for that section.
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> We don’t give them the team score. Students rarely miss a session. Occasionally a student will elect to miss a session for personal reasons (going on holidays!) and they just forfeit any score for that week. I have 120 students and probably have only one each time who takes a “missed test” makeup test.
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> Cheers
> Elizabeth
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> Elizabeth Oldland
> Lecturer
> School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sonia Cotto-Moreno
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2013 12:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: TEAMLEARNING-L Digest - 3 Sep 2013 to 6 Sep 2013 (#2013-119)
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> Good Morning:
> Has anyone developed a policy or strategy for students who miss the iRAT & tRAT?
> Do you have a make-up of only the iRAT?
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> --tks, Sonia
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> Sonia Cotto-Moreno, MPH, RD/LD
> Lecturer II
> UTSA
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