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Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience
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Charles R. Henderson, Emily Marshman, Alexandru Maries, Edit Yerushalmi, and Chandralekha Singh
Teaching assistants (TAs) are often responsible for grading student solutions. Since grading communicates instructors' expectations, TAs' grading decisions play a crucial role in forming students' approaches to problem solving (PS) in physics. We investigated the change in grading practices and considerations of 18 first-year graduate students participating in a TA professional development (PD) course. The TAs were asked to state their beliefs about the purpose of grading, to grade a set of specially designed student solutions, and to explain their grading decisions. We found that after one semester of teaching experience and participation in PD, TAs did not significantly change their goals for grading (i.e., a learning opportunity for both the student and the instructor) or their grading practice. In addition, TAs' grading practice frequently did not align with their goals. However, some TAs' perceptions of the level of explication required in a student solution did change. Our findings suggest that in order for PD to help TAs better coordinate their goals with appropriate grading practices, PD should focus on TAs' perception of sufficient reasoning in student solutions.
Physics Education Research Conference 2014
Part of the PER Conference series Minneapolis, MN: July 30-31, 2014 Pages 111-114
2014 PERC Notable Paper
Author: Lyle This paper was one of four 2014 PERC Proceedings papers selected as notable by PERLOC and the Notable Papers subcommittee.
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=13461">Henderson, C, E. Marshman, A. Maries, E. Yerushalmi, and C. Singh. "Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, July 30-31, 2014.</a>
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C. Henderson, E. Marshman, A. Maries, E. Yerushalmi, 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=13461&DocID=4060).
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C. Henderson, E. Marshman, A. Maries, E. Yerushalmi, and C. Singh, Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13461&DocID=4060>.
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Henderson, C., Marshman, E., Maries, A., Yerushalmi, E., & Singh, C. (2014, July 30-31). Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN. Retrieved September 16, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13461&DocID=4060
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Henderson, C, E. Marshman, A. Maries, E. Yerushalmi, and C. Singh. "Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, July 30-31, 2014. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13461&DocID=4060 (accessed 16 September 2024).
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Henderson, Charles, Emily Marshman, Alexandru Maries, Edit Yerushalmi, and Chandralekha Singh. "Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience." Physics Education Research Conference 2014. Minneapolis, MN: 2014. 111-114 of PER Conference. 16 Sep. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13461&DocID=4060>.
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Author = "Charles Henderson and Emily Marshman and Alexandru Maries and Edit Yerushalmi and Chandralekha Singh",
Title = {Instructional Goals and Grading Practices of Graduate Students after One Semester of Teaching Experience},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2014},
Pages = {111-114},
Address = {Minneapolis, MN},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 30-31},
Year = {2014}
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