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Steep Grade Ahead: Grad Students and Plagiarism

By On November 12, 2012 · 3 Comments

We’ve reached that point in the semester that can become oppressive for TAs and grad students teaching their own courses.  Those essay assignments that seemed like such a good idea back in September are seeming distinctly less so as teetering piles of ungraded papers on your desk.  Just as your own semester workload is increasing [...]

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The Tricky Business of Grading Participation

By On June 13, 2012 · 7 Comments

In our teaching roles as graduate students, we often are called on to assess students’ participation in classroom activities like discussion; often, this evaluation assumes the form of assigning an actual grade to such effort.

As I look back on my graduate school career (yes, I successfully defended my dissertation last month!), one constant stands [...]

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