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> actual work for the teaching staff It's not just "actual work", writing high quality tests and projects and then grading them is multiple full-time jobs wort
by professoretc 5y ago
> actual work for the teaching staff
It's not just "actual work", writing high quality tests and projects and then grading them is multiple full-time jobs worth of work. It's equivalent to interviewing 100 job candidates every week, forever.
- lostcolony 5y agoSpeaking as someone who TAed a couple years: I much preferred grading projects to tests. Projects they had to demo, and they had a published rubric. While it was possible sometimes to play to the rubric, it still meant there was very little work to figure out a grade. Tests, on the other hand, I had to dig in, understand what they were trying to do, figure out if it worked, and award partial credit. I guess the prof could have done multiple choice to make grading easy, but that has all kinds of problems with actually testing anything.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoYeah, I've done it. Both as a TA and as instructor of record. The fact that the university doesn't provide adequate staffing is not an excuse for short-changing the students still further.