We never change scores on the iRAT, but do change. gRAT score for a team that has successfully appealed a question-but only the team that does the appeal. D Nothing like iPhone On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Henriikka Clarkeburn <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > We also have used iRATs on Blackboard and have found a 3rd party > tool Respondus to do the trick of uploading the questions while > retaining a printable copy for the T-RAT in class. Once familiar > with Blackboard I have found the uploading relatively simple. > > Interested to hear more about changing marks after a succesful > appeal, sounds way too tedious to it by hand. I am sure a technical > solution can be found! > > Best wishes, > > Henriikka > _________________________________________________________ > Dr Henriikka Clarkeburn > Lecturer > > OFFICE OF LEARNING AND TEACHING IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS > Faculty of Economics and Business > Rm 396 Merewether Building (H04) > The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 > > > ________________________________ > From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Alexandra Albright [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Sunday, 29 November 2009 4:42 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Accomodating test-takers who need more time > > I have also moved to Blackboard for my law school iRATs. The > advantage is that we don’t have to use valuable class time for the i > RAT and can go straight to the gRAT. We have a strong honor code at > the law school, so I don’t worry about cheating enough to make that > a deal-killer. And my RATs are open book (as is the exam)—they ten > d to be harder questions than most TBL-ers use. I use the RAT to fo > ster discussion in solving the problems as well as getting the basic > info learned. > > The downside is that we find Blackboard very clunky I have not had > a chance to talk to our Blackboard people yet, but some issues are: > > 1. After a successful appeal, is there an easy way to change > the grade on the iRat? So far, it appears that I have to go into > each quiz, find out how the person answered the question, and then > make the change by hand. > > 2. When cutting and pasting my word doc into the Blackboard > test-maker the fonts got all confused and it was a mess. The second > time, I wrote the quiz on Blackboard, but then I could not figure > out how to get a reasonable paper copy of the RAT to hand out in > class to use during gRATs. My secretary cut and pasted off of > Blackboard before class, which is a pain. > > 3. You have to be really careful to make sure the students are > not shown their grade or the statistics after the iRAT. I didn’t hi > t the right button last quiz, and in the gRAT, I found some students > trying to game the statistics to figure out the right answer. It g > ot even crazier because I had miskeyed an answer on Blackboard, so t > he kids trying to use the statistics were conned into the wrong answ > er. [I’m also trying to figure out how to deal with that miskeying > on Blackboard…] > > I would love to hear if any of you have used Blackboard with better > results. All in all, unless I can get some answers from Blackboard > that make this easy, I’ll have to go back to the scantrons. Maybe h > and them out to the students before class. > > By the way, my civil procedure class LOVES the RATs. They would > really like to have one each week…. They see it as practice for the > many multiple choice exams that they face during their law school c > areers and a way to get early feedback (most law school classes only > grade a final exam). > > Alex Albright > Univ of Texas Law > > From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Tim Connors > Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:28 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Accomodating test-takers who need more time > > I have only just recently begun experimenting with TBL but in all my > classes I have moved individual quizzes/exams/RATs to Blackboard. I > used to worry about cheating by doing this but in the past 4-5 years > of doing things things way I have seen literally no difference in > the overall scores between taking them in-class or electronically. > I would like to attribute this to the first question on all my > electronic quizzes, etc., which asks students to verify that they > aren't cheating (pangs of conscience) but the more likely reason is > that my classes tend to have mostly majors and minors who don't want > to risk being caught. > > By moving to Blackboard I am able to give the students a larger > window during which to take the quiz/exam/RAT (usually 24-36 hours) > and I can set the timer for each assignment to accommodate the time- > and-a-half some test-takers need. I also have the completion time > 30-60 minutes before my class begins so that I can review individual > responses before tQuizzes/tRATs. > > Tim > > Timothy D. Connors > Professor of Theatre > Central Michigan University > > Office/Voice: 989-774-3815 > Fax: 989-774-2498