Word: gradinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last semester's Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice" granted its teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own...
For example, in my four years at a California public high school, I was never assigned a research paper, required to study more than one of Shakespeare's plays per year or asked to perform a chemistry lab more complex than using pipettes to observe chemical reactions. Such a secondary...
Other teaching fellows use the "tough love" approach towards first-years, acknowledging their lack of educational experience but hoping that lower grades will motivate the students to work harder and rise to the level of older students in the section. But even if these teaching fellows opt to neglect class...
Even without considering inflated grading policies, there already exist too many factors that detract from the uniformity of a course's sections. Most obvious are the variations among teaching fellows, from the dynamic leaders who draw students into discussions to the meek leaders who allow three or four students to...
This past week, Kugel has taught Hanneken'ssections. While he said he does not foresee anyproblems with the grading of students inHanneken's section, Kugel said the sudden loss ofa T.F. will disrupt the class.