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One way of scaling out interactive/oral assessment (and personalized instruction in general) is to hire a group of course assistants/tutors from the previous co
by musicale 10mo ago
One way of scaling out interactive/oral assessment (and personalized instruction in general) is to hire a group of course assistants/tutors from the previous cohort.
- vkou 10mo agoSo, TAs. The other half of the mission-critical staff that keeps a university running.
- musicale 10mo agoI think it works differently at different schools and in different countries, but hourly (often undergraduate work-study) course assistants in the US can be very affordable since they typically still pay tuition and are paid at a lower rate than fully funded (usually graduate student) TAs.
- ninalanyon 10mo agoDoes any country other than the US use TAs? They certainly weren't a thing when I studied in the UK in the 1970s.
- vkou 10mo agoCanada.
- ninalanyon 10mo agoAs a student I really would not want to be taught by someone who was simply a couple of years ahead of me. I want my tutor to be a lot more experienced in both the subject and in tutoring.