At 05:02 AM 10/16/2008, you wrote:
Hello All,

Today was our first real RAP and a few students were absent.  Do you give the absent students the team RAT point, or just a zero?

Christine,

A zero.

I set my point structure up to include (typically) 5 RAT scores, then schedule 6 RATs. I explain at the beginning I will drop the lowest individual and the lowest team score at the end.

Many students miss one RAT - and they get a pair of 0s, which are then dropped. This also allows me to schedule the first RAT relatively early, before the university's "last day to add" a course date. Only a very few students have ever missed 2 RATS in my 10 years of TBL (and well over 1000 students).

I require the Individual RAT before one can get the Group RAT points. If a student comes in late, they must take the Individual RAT first (sometimes in the hall if the Group RAT is about to start). If that causes them to miss the Team RAT, then they get a 0 on it (but again, their lowest score gets dropped).

Hope that's helpful. (This is a repost of my 9/2/08 comment on this list.)

Andy


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