Responsibility for grading rests solely with the listed instructor of the course . CAs and TFs do not have instructional appointments and are not authorized by the school to assign grades. In some cases Course Assistants and Teaching Fellows may be used to assist in gathering information on which grading will be based. In these instances it is permissible to leave the TF or CA comments visible, but the instructor should always add his or her own comments as well. The school s standard is that the instructor of the course will always write something on all papers returned.
Students look for their grades, but they learn more from faculty comments.
Remember, most Course Assistants at the KSG are peers of the students in the class, and this can present a range of awkward situations involving grading. Assignments where the evaluation is in terms of check, check plus, or check minus, etc. Assignments where what counts toward the students overall grade is only whether or not they turned in the assignment, not the grade the assignment receives. In these instances the grade is only intended to provide feedback to the student. Faculty must be solely responsible for grades in any instance where grade credit is given for the logic used in arriving at an answer, or where there is a qualitative judgment made about the student s work .