Re: team 'games'?
Hi
As a summing up exercise...we have had teams write a RAP question about each module......then combine them for a review tRAT (no marks)
Student teams sometimes write difficult nasty questions.....but the question authors debrief the question and handle appeals
We don’t use all generated question but a good selection
jim
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Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:43:13 -0400
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Subject: Re: team 'games'?
Jennifer,
Since this comes at a natural "summing up" time for the course and before they take the exam, is there any way to have the "game" be about quality of questions they might write vs. answers to yours?
Perhaps you give them a key concept that will be covered on the exam, and the challenge is to have each team write a question and plausible answer choices that get to the heart of applying the concept (they should also supply a "key"). Then, the whole class votes on the best team Q & A per concept. In this way, it could be a review session that not only judges their understanding of key course concepts, but also their incorporation of TBL. I know, writing projects are the toughest team tasks. But maybe by this time in the semester they could handle a short focused, in-class effort around a concept question and 4-5 answers, a process that has been modeled to them through TBL up to this point in the semester.
Good luck and let us know how the game goes.
Thx,
John
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Bradetich, Judi <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I have my classes play Power Point Jeopardy. I haven't done it with large numbers of teams, but it seems like Whiteboard would make it fairly easy to see who has the answer first.
Judi Bradetich, M.S., M.M.
Lecturer, Development and Family Studies
Dept. of Educational Psychology
University of North Texas
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Subject: team 'games'?
Hi all,
As the semester winds down, I was thinking about making the last class
meeting (which will be mostly review) a sort of team competition. That
is, as a way of reviewing the semester's material, have teams compete
to answer review questions. I have thirteen teams and they typically
use whiteboards to report their application answers so I guess I'm
thinking something like the first team to raise their whiteboard gets
the chance to answer the question (of course, a 'good' answer will
depend on their justification of their choice). I'm just curious if
anyone has done something like this and if so, a) do you think it was
a useful exercise and b) how exactly did you set things up (e.g., did
you let the team decide who on the team would answer for the team or
is it better to pick someone randomly; if the team's response isn't
that great, how do you choose another team to challenge, etc.)? I
guess my concern is that after a semester of encouraging students to
get input from everyone on their team to craft a consensus, creating a
competition might lead them to just rely on their 'strongest' member
to simply answer for them.
thanks,
Jennifer
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Department of Economics
San Diego State University
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