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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Graduate Teaching Assistants"”.
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An examination of mentoring among graduate teaching assistants
… need arose to examine peer communication between graduate students. This study specifically examined peer mentoring among graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Surveys were distributed to GTAs in every department and school at that university. Results …
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Disciplinary Participation and Genre Acquisition of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Composition
This project focuses on the way that new graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in English develop both their professional identity as teachers and their view of Composition as a field. Drawing on social theories of disciplines (Prior, 1998; Hyland, 2004; Carter, 2007), disciplinary enculturation …
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Analysis of a Peer Observation Program for Graduate Teaching Assistants to Enhance Instructional Development
… from TA observations targeted a wide variety of teaching-related topics, provided detailed suggestions as well as general comments, and was balanced in both positive and negative feedback. Findings from the study also indicated that the benefits from the program included direct improvements in …
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The Motivation and Identity Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in First-Year Engineering Programs
… having multiple sections requiring the use of Teaching Assistants (TAs) who may be graduate students (GTAs) or undergraduate students (UTAs). The roles of TAs in first-year engineering courses vary from instructional staff to lab supervisors to graders, but despite their widespread use, little …
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‘Restor(y)ing their position in the spotlight, please welcome back on stage… Postgraduate Students who teach… or Graduate Teaching Assistants... or Teaching Postgrads… or…’
… is the story of the experiences of eleven postgraduate research students who teach within the Institute of Technology (IoT) sector in Ireland. Despite being present within the university sector, both nationally and internationally, the concept of teaching postgraduates, within the IoT sector, …
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Perception of GTAs About Their Graduate Teaching Experiences: The Effects of Pedagogical Support/Mentoring
… of a semester long course of study presented to graduate teaching assistants in several disciplines. This study was important because many departments offer little or no specific training for their GTAs and, as a result, many of them find themselves confused and frustrated in their …
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Social Distance In The College Classroom
… towards their instructor as compared to their graduate teaching assistant, statistical significance was found. Students perceived less social distance towards their designated graduate teaching assistant as compared to their instructor in lower level, large enrollment classes. Graduate teaching …
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Giving voice : the use of interactive theatre as professional development in higher education to reduce alienation of marginalized groups
… used for professional development, faculty and graduate teaching assistants who had participated in the program, and members of the Interactive Theatre troupe. The setting was a large Midwest university. Data collection methods included audio-recorded interviews and observations of individuals …
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Investigating the role of teaching circles in composition GTA development: narratives of professional growth and identity formation
This dissertation investigates the application of Teaching Circles (TCs) as a peer support system for Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in composition courses, with a particular focus on the development of their professional identities and pedagogical practices. Despite the increasing reliance on …
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Developmental Mathematics: A Quantitative Investigation of Instructor Classification as Related to Student Success
… classification, specifically as related to Graduate Teaching Assistants and Adjunct Instructors in being statistically significant to a student’s success in developmental mathematics. Additionally, student race, student gender, and first-generation status showed that a correlation does exist …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
… on the dual influence of teachers and students. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have unique communication concerns and provide a context to explore how this particular population of teachers interpret and respond to student immediacy cues. While previous research has not always given adequate …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
… on the dual influence of teachers and students. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have unique communication concerns and provide a context to explore how this particular population of teachers interpret and respond to student immediacy cues. While previous research has not always given adequate …
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With Hope: A Student-Centered Model of Critical Pedagogy for First-Year Writing
… writing, particularly for new instructors and graduate teaching assistants. This study uses a three-part methodology. First, relevant scholarship is synthesized in four parts: critical pedagogy as theory, critical pedagogy as design for instructor accompliceship, critical pedagogy as method for …
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The formation of teaching identities among novice social science seminar tutors: A longitudinal study at the London School of Economics and Political Science
… investigates how five novice social science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) formed identities as academic teachers during their first two years inservice. These tutors participated in the London School of Economics' Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) during these two …
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The Use of Global and Specific Items in Evaluating Teaching in a Teaching Assistant Training Program
… was to determine if making specific changes in teaching, changes that were validated by experts, would change the overall ratings of instructors. In a previous study thirty-seven graduate teaching assistants participated in a workshop on improving lecturing skills. The teaching assistants were …
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O*NET or NOT? Adequacy of the O*NET system's rater and format choices
… Fifty three Incumbent raters in two occupations (Graduate teaching assistants and Secretaries) and 87 laypeople raters who have never worked in these occupations, rated 21 item-pairs (Importance and Level type questions) picked randomly from the 52 items on the original O*NET Ability …
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The effect of a feedback system on teacher performance in writing conferences
… of a feedback system on the performance of two graduate teaching assistants (GTAb) in writing conferences with their students. Two sets of conferences were taped and coded for the interactions that took place and for the content transacted. I established inter-coder reliability of .84 on …
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Women and Authority: Transitioning Into a Role of Assigned Authority as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in a Leadership Class
… that are unfamiliar to them. The role of Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) provides women the opportunity to practice, and hopefully improve upon, their ability to learn about, demonstrate, and manage authority. Thus, this study investigated the experiences of six female graduate teaching …
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