Hi all, I will be trying TBL for the first time in the fall and am working through lots of issues. One has to do with the structure, and reporting, of the team application exercises. My students will be using clickers for the IRATs (though probably the IF-AT forms for the GRATs), and I was planning to start many of the team exercises with an individual clicker question, to get students thinking about the issue on their own before turning to the group. But I'm a little worried about having all the team exercises set up as multiple-choice questions because I wonder how that will impact the ensuing discussion. For example, I can imagine a scenario where the majority of teams selects one of the responses; even if a team that chooses a different response has a good reason for selecting that, the other students may just think they are 'right' because they are with the majority, and not really engage in the discussion. Of course, with many of the applications, there is not necessarily a right answer so the key will be in their reasoning but still, I wonder if having multiple-choice options will create an 'illusion' in students' minds that there are right and wrong responses. I've thought about giving them whiteboards instead and having them write a short response but then I'm worried that, given the size of the room (70 students), not everyone will be able to see what everyone else has written. Any thoughts, experiences, advice? Jennifer **************************** Jennifer Imazeki Department of Economics San Diego State University homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/ Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com