As a PhD candidate who had to grade undergraduate papers, barely any of them know how to write and it’s painfully obvious when they try to cheat. In humanities a lot of my courses try to help the non-humanities students learn but not always successfully. It’s awesome when some students go from C’s to A’s based on my feedback. Makes the job worth while.
It’s awesome when some students go from C’s to A’s based on my feedback.
If you can get a really positive feedback loop going, where the student trusts the teacher and you can harmonize, that’s awesome. I’ve been in classes like that. I’ve also been in classes where the RA didn’t speak English and I had to argue trivial subjects straight from the textbook that got graded wrong.
There’s real quality education and there’s diploma mills and weed out classes, and you can find them two doors down from one another on some campuses.
