I teach a capstone course in farm management and operations- Junior/ senior level students only. Students are making decisions that affect a working farm operation. Because of this, I grade TRATS with four options (a,b,c,d) 4-2-0. My experience thus far has been great. Students are extremely engaged in the discussion process and only seem to have issues at the beginning of the semester when they’re are unfamiliar with the process. I have found that if they exhaust their options for earning points, it is generally because they haven’t adequately prepared (also evident when compared to each members IRAT score).

OP McCubbins

Instructor- AGEDS 450

Collegiate FFA Graduate Advisor

College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

Department of Agricultural Education & Studies

217B Curtiss Hall

Ames, IA 50011

859-444-3966

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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sibley, James Edward
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: tRAT Grading

Hi

We use 4-2-1-0 on 4 distractor cards and 8-4-2-1-0 on five distractors cards

The 4-3-2-1-0…makes me uncomfortable ….a student could not know a single right answer…but get them on the second try and still get 75% on test….that just feels wrong to me

jim

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Date: Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7:08 AM
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Subject: Re: tRAT Grading

We use 4 - 2 - 1 - 0

We have A-D (4 option) MCQs for our tRATs, so I couldn¹t justify giving 1

mark to the students who have exhausted all the options.

If you have A-E then I can see 4, 3, 2, 1 (0) making more sense.

I wonder whether one gets more discussion with the 4/2/1/0 option. The

fact that getting it right first time is worth double the points may

encourage students to spend more time thinking/discussing their preferred

response and coming to a proper consensus. But that is just a gut feeling

- I wonder if anyone has tried to see whether it actually makes any

difference? Does anyone know of data on this?

Josie ?

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On 16/01/2015 14:05, "DrL" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi,

What is the most popular grading system for tRATs?  One point off for

each wrong answer (4,3,2,1)  or reduce by half for each wrong answer

(4,2,1,0)?  Other methods?  What are the pro and cons?

R Roy Lindquist, M.D.

University of Connecticut

School of Medicine

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