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According to Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, students are only allowed to grade material that is "objectively right or wrong." This requirement reduces student TFs to grading machines, simply checking off words or numbers as they appear. No knowledge of subject matter or skills of assessment are necessary...
Since the job of TF means much more than grading, this objective-only rule denigrates the expertise of undergraduate TFs. They have to be well-versed in their fields to teach weekly sections--why should they be prohibited from applying this expertise to the mundane task of grading?
Other undergraduate say grading in computer sciences is formulaic and not at all subjective.
"If an undergraduate were grading an English paper of mine, I would feel awkward," Seims says. "But grading in the sciences is much more algorithmic. If I felt someone gave me a bad grade, I could ask him to justify the points he took off, and if I was graded...
"When the work piles up, [undergraduate teaching fellows] don't have flexibility," he says.Crimson File PhotoHarry R. Lweis'68'I think the rules agianst students grading subjective material... are appropriate.'