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The enrollment at UT Austin is ~50K. No way you can grade that many tests by hand. Source: I went to UT for grad school and was a TA.
by timy2shoes 4y ago
The enrollment at UT Austin is ~50K. No way you can grade that many tests by hand.
Source: I went to UT for grad school and was a TA.
- MengerSponge 4y agoIt's safe to assume the enrollment of Prof. Aaronson's Quantum Computing course isn't 50k.
- timy2shoes 4y agoThank you Captain Obvious. The parent comment was about classes at UT in general, not about one specific class.
- MengerSponge 4y agoI suppose we can generalize my statement too. I imagine that most courses at UT have fewer than 50k students enrolled.
- sudosysgen 4y agoEnrolment at my uni is 70k. There is no real problem with long form questions on the test, even for first year classes. I was also a TA. You can have more correctors, and I'd assume a quantum computing class won't even have too many students.
- AlgorithmicTime 4y ago[dead]
- warner25 4y agoGood point. I was also thinking that I never saw a scantron while studying CS at two different American R1 research universities, but the CS departments were small with at most 25 people in a classroom. Peeking at some other universities now, it looks like some required undergrad CS classes have 500-1,000 seats. That's crazy, and clearly demands a different approach. True/False questions happened sometimes in my experience, but not in this quantity (20). I wouldn't say it's lazy. The questions can be clever and writing them, such that the answer isn't debatable and doesn't depend on a bunch of assumptions, is pretty hard. Lazy and terrible is where you have multiple choice questions for which 3/4 of the answers are throwaway nonsense, or the answers are numerical values that are definitively correct or incorrect but are trivia rather than anything conceptual.
- estomagordo 4y agoWell, if a uni with 5k enrolled can hand grade tests, then obviously UT Austin could, if they had 10x faculty of the first uni.
- bigbillheck 4y agoThe more you spend on faculty the less you can spend on sports.
- STM32F030R8 4y agoDo you honestly believe UT spends money on its sports? You realize their football team generates BILLIONS a year in sales and TV rights? Football isn’t why UT is overcrowded lol