Hi
We never…never…never…never…never…never…allow individual appeals
We sometimes get unhappy individual students whose biggest compliant is they got the question wrong….not that the question is flawed
We push back on these individual appeals…saying if it is valid…you should have no trouble convincing your teammates….we look forward to your team appeal
When we write a flawed question…and there are mass team appeals…we make it right for individual and teams
But stand your ground….it is better in the long term
jim
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From: <Hughes>, Katie M <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Hughes, Katie M" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 8:39 AM
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Individual appeals
It depends on what you biserials are for each question and answer when you do the test analysis. If I had a bad question or my distractor was too plausible, then I grant points for more than one answer.
We use the Remark testing software which gives an awesomely detailed test analysis. If I throw out a question or accept multiple answers this system will rescore the tests quickly. I also then go through all of the T-RATs to grant points back if needed.
Respectfully,
Katie
Katie Hughes MS, RN
Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing and Health ProfessionsMarian University
45 S. National Avenue
Fond du Lac, WI 54935
Phone: 920.923.8732
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Raeker-Jordan
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:11 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Individual appeals
I have had this happen before. If two options are equally plausible, then I wrote a poor question for the RAP process. I would rescore all the iRATs and award full credit for either option.
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David Raeker-Jordan
Legal Methods Professor
Widener University School of Law
3800 Vartan Way
P.O. Box 69380
Harrisburg, PA 17106-9380
717.541.1996
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Andrew W Keitt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I know that appeals are only granted to teams, but I’m have some push back on this policy and am having trouble justifying it. Let’s say there are two answers and there is a good case to be made that they are equally plausible—the team picks the “correct” answer, but the individual student, although she has made a good argument for her choice, is out of luck. In a big class it’s not feasible to entertain each individual appeal, but apart from logistics I’m having a hard time justifying it.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to deal with this?
Thanks!
Andrew Keitt
