Hello fellow TBLers We have had some excellent discussions here about whether to (and how to) assess team work. This is excellent formative assessment - that is, measuring to what degree individuals and teams are mastering concepts, and working as teams, with results helping both students and instructors determine how well the learning is going. But, I wonder if anyone has incorporated team work into evaluative assessments - ie final exams? For example, has anyone included exam questions in which students work as teams for a fixed amount of time, then go back to their test papers to respond to questions based on work done on the spot in teams? There may be notes in the references but I thought I would poll the collective wisdom first. Cheers, Francis -- -------------------------------------------------------------- | Francis Jones, | Teaching & Learning Fellow & Lecturer (Geophysics) | EOS Science Education Initiative (eos-sei), | UBC Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI). | UBC Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences, | 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, | [log in to unmask] or 604-822-2138. | http://www.eos.ubc.ca/public/people/faculty/F.Jones.html --------------------------------------------------------------