This is the policy we came up with for dealing with missed RATs (see below). We run two TBL sessions for 2 hours on Friday afternoons (so missed sessions without a valid reason become more of an issue if it happens to be a long weekend!). A valid, documented medical excuse would require an official note from the University health Clinic that is then submitted to the Dean of Students office, who then notify us if a student is exempted. Just to give you some background: each TBL Module is 2 weeks in length (i.e., 2 consecutive Friday sessions). This is part of the Medical Microbiology course for 2nd Year Medical students. Each session has about 250 students (approximately 42 teams of 6 students in each session), with a total of slightly over 500 students. The IRAT and TRAT each contribute 9 points (so 18 points total) to the final grade, which is out of a total of 260 points.. Regards, Joanna ___________________________________________________________________________________ Attendance will be taken by your Team for each TBL session. If you miss a session where there was a Readiness Assessment Test, you will be allowed to take a Completion test ONLY if you have a valid, documented medical excuse. Illegitimate/undocumented absences will result in a score of 0 for both the Individual and Team Readiness Assessment Tests. Completion IRATs will be scheduled by the TBL Coordinator and will normally be held on the Friday, at 12 noon, following the original IRAT. Since you were not present for one out of the two Team sessions, you will receive half (50%) of the TRAT score for the missed module. In the event that you are absent for both the IRAT session and the following week’s session (i.e., a whole Module), you will not be eligible for any of the TRAT points associated with that Module. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J.C. Rayner, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies. Tel: (00) 1 473 444 4175 Ext. 2100 Fax: (00) 1 473 439 1845 Email: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________