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Of all of the changes to American society due to outsourcing, one in particular has recently raised eyebrows: the delegation of paper grading at some colleges to companies that work in India and Malaysia. This particularly worrisome trend received media attention when the practice was adopted in a University of...
In this particular case, a company called EduMentry that hires workers in India, Malaysia and Singapore provided a service called Virtual TA, which grades papers for large classes that lack enough teaching assistants. Outsourcing in this manner takes away from the education that students are receiving, as there is considerable...
Professor Daniel G. Donoghue, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English department, said that having theses due before spring break is needed to give faculty ample time to grade theses and conduct oral exams before final grades are due. Four weeks is usually required for a comfortable grading schedule, he...
Has writing this book made you anxious around other people? Do people notice you looking at them in conversation? Fool that I am, it never occurred to me. I once knew a therapist, and I said to him, "When you go to a party or a dinner, you must think...
Grading inflation has continued because “parents like it, students like it, the faculty likes it, and the administration loves it,” Mansfield said.