Teaching Assistants (TAs) fill critical roles in instructional teams, spending one-on-one time wi... more Teaching Assistants (TAs) fill critical roles in instructional teams, spending one-on-one time with students, providing feedback, and serving a critical mentoring role. As a result, the process of selecting TAs is important, yet instructors often have little information when making hiring decisions. We used data collected from a course discussion board to identify statistics that are indicative of participation and that might be useful for hiring TAs. We then analyzed opast TA hires and found that there are opportunities to use discussion board metrics to increase the number of potentially qualified applicants for TA roles and to better inform instructors about the engagement of past students as they select candidates.
Teaching Assistants (TAs) fill critical roles in instructional teams, spending one-on-one time wi... more Teaching Assistants (TAs) fill critical roles in instructional teams, spending one-on-one time with students, providing feedback, and serving a critical mentoring role. As a result, the process of selecting TAs is important, yet instructors often have little information when making hiring decisions. We used data collected from a course discussion board to identify statistics that are indicative of participation and that might be useful for hiring TAs. We then analyzed opast TA hires and found that there are opportunities to use discussion board metrics to increase the number of potentially qualified applicants for TA roles and to better inform instructors about the engagement of past students as they select candidates.
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