Herb: Two suggestions: 1) It sounds like your RATs are easier than mine, in order to make the T-RAT work well, I want the I-RATs to be pretty difficult (to give the students something tough enough on the T-RATs so that they'll need to carefully reason their answers. Thus, it's understood by the students that I will routinely "curve" or rescale their I-RAT scores. If my mean grade for the I-RATs was much above 6 out of 10, then I'd be looking at T-RAT scores that were almost all 9's and 10's. 2) I've never had the individual component of the grade be less than 50% (if not usually at least 60%). I want the teams to be there for learning but want the grade to be driven mostly by individual performance. Thus, I set minimums for the percentage weights for individual performance activities. (This seems to be what Michaelsen does as well.) Best, Fritz -----Original Message----- From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Herb Coleman Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:17 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: iRAT/gRAT While we're on the subject does anyone have a plan or correction for people who constantly do poorly on the iRAT but then benefit from the group on the T-RAT's. I had students last semester who consistently got 6 out of 10 points or less on every iRAT. However since the class gave more weight to T-RAT's they were able to offset their low individual score with the higher team score (the lowest usually being 12 out of 15 points). Juli Dunn wrote: > Can anyone suggest better names for the readiness assessment tests? > For whatever reason I would like something that doesn't spell RAT. I > have played with iRAQ (other issues) and gRAQ. Any suggestions woudl > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Juli > > ** > Julia L Dunn, AT/L, MA > Director of Academic Resources > Associate Professor > Whitman College > Memorial Hall 205B > 345 Boyer Avenue > Walla Walla, WA 99362 > [log in to unmask] > 509.527.5013 (office) > 509.301.6824 (cell) > > -- Herb Coleman,Director Instructional Computing and Technology Adjunct Professor of Psychology Austin Community College Highland Business Center 5930 Middle Fiskville Rd. Austin, TX 78752 [log in to unmask] 512-223-7746 ************************************************* "I, and every other professor on this campus, are here to help you to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind." ---Professor Melvin Tolson from the motion picture "The Great Debaters" *************************************************