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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Teaching Assistant"”.
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Disdoc: AI Teaching Assistant for Computer Science Courses
… become less effective due to rising student-to-teaching assistant ratios. To address this issue, research has investigated large language models (LLMs) to provide individualized help to students at scale. However, prior research primarily targets introductory computing courses, does not fully …
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Virtual Teaching Assistant to Support Students' Efforts in Programming
… grading tool. We have developed a Virtual Teaching Assistant for Web-CAT, called Maria, who can support the students to help alleviate some of the negative emotions towards programming. We have used an animated pedagogical agent as the virtual assistant as certain characteristics of the …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
… 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 focus to …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
… 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 focus to …
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Improving and Evaluating Maria: A Virtual Teaching Assistant for Computer Science Education
… into this problem produced Maria, a virtual teaching assistant (TA). This initial version of Maria was able to answer student questions, provide error explanations, and praise students for effort on programming assignments. This research continues work on the Maria project with three design …
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Student Belonging in Teaching Assistant Interactions and Course Policies in Post-Secondary Computer Science
… In the second study, I studied students and teaching assistants (TAs) in 4 CS courses, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced; core and elective, interviewing them about their belonging in post-secondary CS. I conducted semi-structured 1:1 interviews with 14 participants, …
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTERIZED INTERACTIVE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN PHYSICS: THE CITA ON CHIP PROJECT
One of the many roles of university instructors is to provide help to students throughout the semester - especially in the form of feedback on homework. Personalized feedback from the instructor might be possible in a small classroom setting, but becomes unmanageable when class sizes grow to dozens …
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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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Women and Authority: Transitioning Into a Role of Assigned Authority as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in a Leadership Class
… 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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Composition, Pedagogy, and the Development of Effective Student-Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of Training Programs for Teaching Assistants in English Departments
… A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS MAJOR PROFESSOR: DR. LISA J. MCCLURE The history of teaching assistant training has followed a tenuous road of development. For English departments, the primary role for teaching assistants has always been …
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Social Distance In The College Classroom
… 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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Pedagogical Fusion
… learned the most through my experiences as a Teaching Assistant. These experiences have been so valuable because of the wide range of subject areas in which I have been involved and the diverse instructors that I have assisted. Although I hesitate to use the word "problem" I feel that there is …
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Working-Class Black Male First -Year Writers and Their Composition Teaching Assistants: Negotiating Power and Authority in the Basic Writing Classroom
… between a young, white upper-middle-class teaching assistant, who favors certain aspects of decentered classroom pedagogy, and three African-American males, two of whom hail from single-mother working-class homes. In particular, this study explores how effective certain decentered classroom …
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Effects of purpose of appraisal on leniency errors: An exploration of self-efficacy as a mediating variable
… judged the videotaped performance of a graduate teaching assistant. Results of the study showed that (a) leniency was positively related to task-specific self-efficacy, and (b) behavioral recognition accuracy was positively related to general rating self-efficacy. A purpose of appraisal effect …
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Changing Pedagogy: The Introduction of Experiential, Cooperative Learning and Interactive Multimedia into the Statics Learning Environment
… from thought, feelings and an understanding of teaching and learning into action and practice (Fullan, 1982). This naturalistic case study describes the initial phases of the teacher change process resulting from the implementation of a restructured undergraduate statics engineering course. The …
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Perceptions of Shared Responsibility in Academic Advising: A Qualitative Case Study of Students and Faculty Advisors at a Midwestern Liberal Arts University
… The experiences of an honors scholar, a teaching assistant, and a single mother were also highlighted. Recommendations are suggested in the areas of enhancing communication about advising, improving understanding of processes of advising, boosting university support for advising, and …
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Wounded (Soul)diers in the Classroom: A Study of Black TAs in a Predominantly White Classroom
… in the Classroom: A Study of the Black Teaching Assistant in a Predominantly White Classroom explores multiple and varied issues leading to and manifesting themselves in the African-American experiences of teaching in a predominantly White context. Through in-depth phenomenological …
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Development of a design environment for integrated concurrent engineering (DE-ICE) in university education : integrating student designers, design tools, and active learning
… the DE-ICE system is characterized: an On-Line Teaching Assistant (OLTA) that provides guidance and project management to student designers. A part of the OLTA is the project navigator, which provides a roadmap through a design process by depicting the dependencies between documents associated …
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Political Emotions: Toward a Fresh Perspective on Collective Emotion in Composition Work
… for the role emotion might play in this teaching and learning situation. I argue that it is both ethically imperative and pragmatically in our best interest to better understand the complexities of the intersection between emotion and politically contentious discourse.</p> <p>Drawing on a …
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