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The simple truth is that bad TFs will always persist at the College. A large research university, even with a faulty-student ratio as low as Harvard’s, will have to tap grad students to teach. But as we have insisted for years, the College can do much...
Finally, professors should do more of their own grading. Evaluation of student work is just as essential to the learning process as course lectures. Yet TFs are almost always the ones grinding through final exams and term papers, making grading at the College often radically subjective and frustratingly inconsistent. Indeed...
We do not expect that more professor oversight will eliminate the problem of inconsistent TF grading at the College. But we believe that professors, who have a great deal more experience judging student work and have a better handle on the expectations of a particular course, should grade at least...
Undergraduate teaching fellows (TFs) teach chemistry, statistics, computer science and some languages, and are responsible not only for grading midterms, but also checking problem sets and other assignments for these classes.
“It wasn’t a big deal because she wasn’t in my section and I wasn’t grading her homework,” he wrote in an e-mail. “But I had to make sure that when we...