I address this the 1st class period and it is in my syllabus that gives ever student an "opt out" opportunity for their individual grades to be kept private. If they opt out, I would grade their RAT myself as well as all other papers that might be on the score sheet. The scores would be recorded by me on a separate sheet. I have NEVER had anyone opt out. My rationale is similar to "informed consent" in research where you read the directions to everyone before taking a survey or something that gives them the option to decline...if they don't definitely say NO, then they are implying yes. But again, with the review no one has opted out of group knowledge. Michael Harstine Associate Professor, Business Grace College, Winona Lake, IN 574-372-5100 ext. 6093 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Team Learning Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greg Dyer Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 3:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Should teams know each members individual scores? Hey Michael -- I've wondered about this as well. My understanding--admittedly limited-- is that this sort of information is pretty tightly restricted by FERPA regulations, or at least it's supposed to be. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Team Learning Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Bieber Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:27 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TEAMLEARNING-L] Should teams know each members individual scores? Hi Everyone, The Michaelsen, Knight & Fink book recommends that individual RAT scores be included in the team folder, so that team members know how their fellow members are doing in the course. Does this mean that the identities of the members are known, or are the individual scores only shown by ID, so the identity of members actually remains anonymous within the group? Are there sufficient advantages to not keeping individual scores private (among the team) to warrant this partial lack of privacy? Should one give class members the option of remaining anonymous, even within their teams? Thanks! Cheers, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Michael Bieber, Associate Professor - Collaborative Hypermedia Research Lab (Co-Director) - IS Ph.D. Program (Director) - Digital Library Service Integration Project (PI) Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber AOL/MSN/Yahoo Instant Messenger: profbieber Phone: (973) 596-2681 FAX: (973) 596-5777 [email preferred] Information Systems Department (http://is.njit.edu/) College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology 5500 Information Technology Center University Heights, Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------