At UIC, we have an attendance policy for TBL: http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments___programs/program_offices/undergraduate_medical_education/curriculum/md_program__year_1_/team-_based_learning/team-_based_learning_attendance_policy We do not grade the Application portion and attendance is optional. I would say that 99% of students stay with the TBL even though they know that once we get to the Application portion, they are technically allowed to leave. Max From: Team-Based Learning on behalf of "Budd, Kristen" Reply-To: "Budd, Kristen" Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 19:39 To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" Subject: Re: Attendance for application exercises Hi Alison, I agree with Kare. Because you haven't built a policy into your syllabus, it's best to rely on the peer evaluations. Granted, if you have a general attendance policy in your syllabus you could lean on that; for example, if they need to provide documentation of illness, etc. My syllabus details that they cannot make up team in-class applications because they have to be there to participate. Keeping in mind that life happens, I do drop two scores at the end of the semester. (To clarify, I don't grade in class applications. They count for 20 participation points per activity). I hope this helps. Best, Kristen On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Alison Bates <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hello, I am teaching my first TBL course and decided to grade the in-class application exercises (upon several threads here since the semester started, I probably wouldn’t do this again). Regardless, I am having a problem: absent students during graded in-class work. It’s not widespread but nonetheless each class maybe 1-2 absent students. I did not specify in my syllabus how this would be handled. My first reaction was to give the missing students a 0 for that exercise, but I do have the peer multiplier built into group grades. How have others dealt with this issue? Thanks for any advice, Alison Alison Bates Lecturer (Renewable Energy & Sustainability) Department of Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts Amherst Holdsworth 209 160 Holdsworth Way Amherst, MA 01003 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 413-545-1768<tel:413-545-1768> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click here.<https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1> Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website. -- Kristen M. Budd, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Faculty Pre-Law Advisor Sociology, Criminology, and Social Justice Studies Miami University Upham Hall 367D Oxford, Ohio 45056-1879 U.S.A. E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: 513-529-1598 Chair-Elect, Crime & Juvenile Delinquency Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2015-2017) Chair, Crime & Juvenile Delinquency Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2017-2019) [http://miamioh.edu/_files/images/ucm/resources/logo/email-FSLOD_186K.jpg] ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click here.<https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1> Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website.