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...come to the program, you just stay at home and play games. If you come to the program, you have fun and do homework like this,” one elementary school-aged Mission Hill participant says, snapping his fingers to indicate how efficiently he could complete work at MHASP...
MHASP maintains particularly strong relationships with Mission Hill Summer and Mission Mentor programs. According to MHASP Clientele Director Max R. Selver ’11, many MHASP volunteers choose to also work for Mission Hill Summer, and, consequently, many kids participate in both programs...
...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 Houston class, and brings up concerns about the quality of contact that students are receiving in large classes...
Additionally, it is worthwhile for students to have an opportunity to communicate directly with the people who are evaluating their work. Although office hours with a teaching assistant would be ideal, given the understandable constraints of tight budgets, even having the option to email evaluators with questions is worthwhile and preferable to a complete lack of contact. Although large classes are often the norm at some universities, schools should never overextend enrollment of classes to the point where they do not have the adequate resources—both physical and human—to accommodate all of the students...
...firm insists that “the proof is in the pudding” when it comes to the success of their assessors. Yet, this lack of transparency is troubling, especially considering the already anonymous and impersonal nature of such outsourcing. If firms like this are interested in working with American universities on tasks as crucial as grading student work, they should be more forthcoming about the qualifications of their employees...