225 Grading Assistant Responsible for grading papers and problems submitted by students to a full-time faculty member in a lecture course. The full-time faculty member is responsible for selecting the assigned homework to be graded. The grader has no direct contact with the students. As described within Section A, potential teaching assistants and faculty are evaluated for proficiency prior to employment. The head of the unit is always involved, but others may be involved as well.
All instructors provide course evaluation forms to the students in each class that they teach.
These forms include an item concerning the evaluation of communication proficiency of the instructor. The student response to this item can be associated with a numerical score, for which a mean and variance can be calculated. In general, annual evaluation procedures within units must include quantitative assessment measures and should include the student evaluation information. Other procedures that units might employ in evaluation of communication proficiency include classroom visits, consideration of materials generated for classroom use and other purposes, seminars and other presentations, and solicitation of input from peers and students. Based on the results of the evaluation within the unit, an instructor may chose to or be required to participate in an improvement program.