I'm new to TBL as well and am very surprised that some class policies allow students to receive scores for work they didn't do/learning they didn't demonstrate. Can anyone share the theory/purpose behind such a policy? In my class, students do not receive scores if they are not present, but students can drop their lowest iRAT/tRAT scores from the final (so, if they missed one, they can drop those 0s). This has worked well for me (albeit, only taught using TBL twice)---no complaints. Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D. Director, Academic Integrity Office Lecturer, Rady School of Management University of California, San Diego 301 University Center 9500 Gilman Drive, 0069 La Jolla, CA, 92093-0069 858-822-2163 858-534-7925 (fax) http://academicintegrity.ucsd.edu UCSD is an institutional member of the International Center for Academic Integrity ________________________________________ From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Edward Bell [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: RAP Question Donna - our course policy which seems to work well - if the absence is "excused" (e.g., contacting the faculty member for the planned absence {illness, car trouble} prior to the class), the IRAT score is the class mean, and the same GRAT score as the groupŠif not excused, then zero for IRAT and GRAT Ed Edward A. Bell, PharmD, BCPS Professor of Pharmacy Practice Drake University College of Pharmacy Des Moines, IA 515-271-1841 On 2/19/14 1:15 PM, "Donna Oglesby" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Quick question from a newbie: If a student misses a RAP because of class >absence, is it customary to give her the team score on the tRAT anyway? >Obviously, she scores zero on the iRAT. > >Donna Oglesby >Eckerd College