I am going through my students’ midterms, which naturally leads me to procrastinate and surf the blogs instead of working offline, which in turn led me to the question number 8 in this post. The Faculty Lounge asks the questions you would really like to ask this weekend at FAR and question 8 is: What role do your research assistants perform in grading final exams?
I recently heard from friends at a first-tier law school that their dean has instituted student teaching assistants for large classes who will among other things help give feedback to students on their written exams. I used to think that was a taboo in law schools even though elsewhere [e.g., b-schools and European/Israeli law schools] it is a common practice. So I am wondering whether there has been some shift in this regard. Are there schools now that encourage or at least allow their faculty to seek student assistance with exams? There could be different degrees of such assistance allowing the professor to still maintain the final task of grading but enabling longer written individualized feedback for each exam?
Posted by Orly Lobel on November 2, 2009 at 05:45 PM