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Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems
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Charles R. Henderson, Emily Marshman, Ryan Sayer, Chandralekha Singh, and Edit Yerushalmi
Physics graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are often responsible for grading. Physics education research suggests that grading practices that place the burden of proof for explicating the problem solving process on students can help them develop problem solving skills and learn physics. However, TAs may not have developed effective grading practices and may grade student solutions in introductory and advanced courses differently. In the context of a TA professional development course, we asked TAs to grade student solutions to introductory physics and quantum mechanics problems and explain why their grading approaches were different or similar in the two contexts. TAs expected and rewarded reasoning more frequently in the QM context. Our findings suggest that these differences may at least partly be due to the TAs not realizing that grading can serve as a formative assessment tool and also not thinking about the difficulty of an introductory physics problem from an introductory physics student's perspective.
Physics Education Research Conference 2016
Part of the PER Conference series Sacramento, CA: July 20-21, 2016 Pages 140-143
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=14213">Henderson, C, E. Marshman, R. Sayer, C. Singh, and E. Yerushalmi. "Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2016, Sacramento, CA, July 20-21, 2016.</a>
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C. Henderson, E. Marshman, R. Sayer, C. Singh, and E. Yerushalmi, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2016, Sacramento, CA, 2016, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14213&DocID=4566).
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C. Henderson, E. Marshman, R. Sayer, C. Singh, and E. Yerushalmi, Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2016, Sacramento, CA, 2016, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14213&DocID=4566>.
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Henderson, C., Marshman, E., Sayer, R., Singh, C., & Yerushalmi, E. (2016, July 20-21). Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2016, Sacramento, CA. Retrieved March 21, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14213&DocID=4566
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Henderson, C, E. Marshman, R. Sayer, C. Singh, and E. Yerushalmi. "Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2016, Sacramento, CA, July 20-21, 2016. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14213&DocID=4566 (accessed 21 March 2025).
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Henderson, Charles, Emily Marshman, Ryan Sayer, Chandralekha Singh, and Edit Yerushalmi. "Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems." Physics Education Research Conference 2016. Sacramento, CA: 2016. 140-143 of PER Conference. 21 Mar. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14213&DocID=4566>.
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Author = "Charles Henderson and Emily Marshman and Ryan Sayer and Chandralekha Singh and Edit Yerushalmi",
Title = {Graduate teaching assistants use different criteria when grading introductory physics vs. quantum mechanics problems},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2016},
Pages = {140-143},
Address = {Sacramento, CA},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 20-21},
Year = {2016}
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