I think the rationale for giving a student with an excused absence the missed points from the tRAT is that recreating the tRAT team environment with a single student is difficult if not impossible. Nevertheless, if the student has made-up the iRAT after the absence, he or she has demonstrated some level of learning on the same assessment. So, what I do for an absent student is immediately go over his make-up iRAT test with him (before revealing the anwer key) so that he can defend his choices against my challenges, and I can clear up misconceptions he may have had from the reading. He then gets his own (earned) iRAT grade and his team's previously earned tRAT grade. (With the assumption that the other members of the team would have advocated for the same choices, on average, with or without him there.) Pete Peter Clapp Assistant Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions Regis University 3333 Regis Boulevard, H-28 Denver, CO 80221-1099 Office: (303) 625-1312 Fax: (303) 625-1305 -----Original Message----- From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bertram Gallant, Tricia Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: RAP Question 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