Grading Practices and Considerations of Graduate Students at the Beginning of their Teaching Assignment
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Edit Yerushalmi, Emily Marshman, Alexandru Maries, Charles R. Henderson, and Chandralekha Singh
Research shows that expert-like approaches to problem-solving can be promoted by encouraging students to explicate their thought processes and follow a prescribed problem-solving strategy. Since grading communicates instructors' expectations, teaching assistants' grading decisions play a crucial role in forming students' approaches to problem-solving in physics. We investigated the grading practices and considerations of 43 graduate teaching assistants (TAs). The TAs were asked to grade a set of specially designed student solutions and explain their grading decisions. We found that in a quiz context, a majority of TAs noticed but did not grade on solution features which promote expert-like approaches to problem-solving. In addition, TAs graded differently in quiz and homework contexts, partly because of how they considered time limitations in a quiz. Our findings can inform professional development programs for TAs.
Physics Education Research Conference 2014
Part of the PER Conference series Minneapolis, MN: July 30-31, 2014 Pages 287 - 290
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=13507">Yerushalmi, E, E. Marshman, A. Maries, C. Henderson, and C. Singh. "Grading Practices and Considerations of Graduate Students at the Beginning of their Teaching Assignment." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, July 30-31, 2014.</a>
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E. Yerushalmi, E. Marshman, A. Maries, C. Henderson, and C. Singh, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13507&DocID=4102).
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E. Yerushalmi, E. Marshman, A. Maries, C. Henderson, and C. Singh, Grading Practices and Considerations of Graduate Students at the Beginning of their Teaching Assignment, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13507&DocID=4102>.
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Yerushalmi, E., Marshman, E., Maries, A., Henderson, C., & Singh, C. (2014, July 30-31). Grading Practices and Considerations of Graduate Students at the Beginning of their Teaching Assignment. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN. Retrieved December 6, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13507&DocID=4102
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Yerushalmi, E, E. Marshman, A. Maries, C. Henderson, and C. Singh. "Grading Practices and Considerations of Graduate Students at the Beginning of their Teaching Assignment." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, July 30-31, 2014. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13507&DocID=4102 (accessed 6 December 2024).
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Yerushalmi, Edit, Emily Marshman, Alexandru Maries, Charles Henderson, and Chandralekha Singh. "Grading Practices and Considerations of Graduate Students at the Beginning of their Teaching Assignment." Physics Education Research Conference 2014. Minneapolis, MN: 2014. 287 - 290 of PER Conference. 6 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13507&DocID=4102>.
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