Dianne and Larry's comments made me remember that I was going to ask you all a question about attendance - do most of you require attendance? How do you incorporate it into the grade? I'm curious because I do not technically keep track of attendance (I say 'technically' because I use clickers and if someone is absent, they do lose clicker points). I figured that if someone is absent a lot, their teammates would account for that in their evaluations. But I have a couple teams that I think are suffering from chronic absences, and attendance has actually not been as high as I expected. Other than the individual clicker points, students have no specific graded incentive to attend (since I do not grade the majority of the team applications) but I'm wondering if I should change that. I usually don't like to make attendance 'mandatory' but than again, in my past courses, a student being absent only hurt him/herself, not anyone else... Along similar lines, how do people handle absences on the day of evaluations? I did mid-semester evaluations yesterday and there were a lot of students absent. Other than the fact that they will not contribute to the evaluation of their teammates (and my guess is that their teammates were less generous to those who were not physically there), does anyone penalize students in some way for missing those evaluations? thanks, 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