scholarly journals Becoming partners: Faculty come to appreciate undergraduates as teaching partners in a service-learning teaching assistant program

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Gail S Begley ◽  
Becca Berkey ◽  
Lisa Roe ◽  
Hilary E. Y. Schuldt
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
The Us ◽  
Level Of Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Service Learning Pedagogy ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study examined the relationships between faculty and their teaching assistants in an undergraduate teaching assistant program developed at Northeastern University in the US to ease the challenges faculty faced in incorporating Service-Learning into their teaching. Feedback from faculty suggested that the undergraduates trained to assist them with purely logistical tasks were becoming partners in teaching. To explore the relationship between faculty and their teaching assistants and better understand how the faculty may have come to view the teaching assistants as partners, we conducted in-depth interviews with faculty across a range of academic disciplines and experience levels who had worked with one or more undergraduate teaching assistants. The data revealed that while the faculty participants did appreciate receiving logistical assistance with Service-Learning, they also benefited from partnering with students as colleagues who supported their teaching more broadly. We also found that faculty viewed the partnership in different ways depending on their level of experience with Service-Learning pedagogy.

scholarly journals More than Marking: Experiences as Undergraduate Design Teaching Assistants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wyatt N. MacNevin ◽  
Bridget McCloskey ◽  
Libby Osgood
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Teaching Role ◽  
Development Of Students

Incorporating aspects of vertical integration into project based learning through the use of undergraduate design teaching assistants is acomplicated approach in engineering education. From a student's perspective, this paper will address topics of student assessment, qualifications and expectations, issues associated with rubrics, evaluation of fellow students, design subjectivity, and overall recommendations. This experience is valuable to engineering educators as it not only highlights the development of students with undergraduate teaching assistants, but also the development of the teaching assistants themselves. This paper examines the benefits, challenges, and considerations experienced in engineering design courses with undergraduate TA's from the perspective of an undergraduate student – first as a student, and then from a teaching role as a teaching assistant.

Using Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in a Research Methodology Course

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia McKeegan
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
In The Beginning

In this article, I describe an undergraduate teaching assistant (TA.) program in which TAs engage in the complementary activities of course preparation, course instruction, and l-on-l tutorial assistance. Questionnaires completed by students enrolled in the beginning methodology course and from undergraduates serving as> TAs indicated that both groups viewed the program as a learning experience. Seventy-three percent of the TAs rated their work as an excellent learning experience. Over 91% of the students who worked with the teaching assistants rated the help they received as good to excellent.

scholarly journals Articulating Learning Objectives for an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program: Merging Teaching Practicum, Leadership Seminar, and Service Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Teaching Practicum ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Virginia Commonwealth University

Since its inception in 2009, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program (in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University) has evolved and expanded into an amalgamation of three distinct but overlapping elements: (i) teaching practicum, (ii) leadership seminar, and (iii) service learning experience. But only recently have we begun to fully and systematically itemize and map the precise learning objectives of the program. This task is particularly important, and particularly challenging, as the program merges learning objectives typically associated with each of the aforementioned elements. This essay seeks to more fully and more systematically articulate the precise learning objectives of this program, first by collating the observations and best practices of faculty who participate in the program into a list of seven skill sets and twenty-one subordinate classroom activities and modes of engagement, second by wedding those results with the “ABC” framework of experiential learning discussed by Carver (1996), and third by further mapping specific learning objectives within that framework through a process of triangulation. It is hoped that this process can be deployed in any similar undergraduate teaching assistant or peer mentoring program in order to reveal the interconnections among various programmatic elements and particular learning objectives.

scholarly journals Testing times: Kiwi journalists and the military

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Denise Mackay ◽  
Margie Comrie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
War Correspondents ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Academic Study

War correspondents, long the object of popular fascination, have been the focus of academic study since Phillip Knightley published The First Casualty in 1976. While New Zealand journalists did not cover the second Iraq War in 2003, the furore over the US practice of ‘embedding’ journalists was felt in New Zealand. Drawing on in-depth interviews with seven seasoned defence reporters, this article examines the relationship between the New Zealand Army and journalists during times of conflict.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Investigation of the Interactions of Students with Graduate and Undergraduate TAs in General Chemistry Laboratories

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 655
Author(s):  
Angela Thien Huong Nguyen ◽  
Xavier D Antoine-Goeas ◽  
Muhammad Sulman ◽  
Linh Le Vuong Tra ◽  
Charles T Cox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Chemistry ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Laboratory Observation ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
Chemistry Laboratories ◽  
Observation Protocol

A new teaching assistant model was adopted and qualitatively assessed for the general chemistry laboratory, in which both an undergraduate and a graduate teaching assistant provided instruction to students during the lab. Verbal interactions between graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants were recorded, transcribed, and coded using the modified Laboratory Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (LOPUS). The codes were applied to capture how discussions, questioning, and explanations were conducted. In addition, the content discussed was coded to identify specific areas that pose challenges for students. Sizable differences were not observed between the number of interactions of the initiation, explanation, and questioning codes between graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants. Of the interactions, 77% focused on questions and discussions regarding the experimental setup. Discussions on the implications with regards to the effective use of undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants in chemistry laboratories are included.

A Multidimensional Theory of Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 416-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoon A. Leenaars ◽  
Gudrun Dieserud ◽  
Susanne Wenckstern ◽  
Kari Dyregrov ◽  
David Lester ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multidimensional Model ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Suicide Survivors ◽  
Background Theory ◽  
Independent Verification ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Interjudge Reliability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Deceased People

Abstract. Background: Theory is the foundation of science; this is true in suicidology. Over decades of studies of suicide notes, Leenaars developed a multidimensional model of suicide, with international (crosscultural) studies and independent verification. Aim: To corroborate Leenaars's theory with a psychological autopsy (PA) study, examining age and sex of the decedent, and survivor's relationship to deceased. Method: A PA study in Norway, with 120 survivors/informants was undertaken. Leenaars' theoretical–conceptual (protocol) analysis was undertaken of the survivors' narratives and in-depth interviews combined. Results: Substantial interjudge reliability was noted (κ = .632). Overall, there was considerable confirmatory evidence of Leenaars's intrapsychic and interpersonal factors in suicide survivors' narratives. Differences were found in the age of the decedent, but not in sex, nor in the survivor's closeness of the relationship. Older deceased people were perceived to exhibit more heightened unbearable intrapsychic pain, associated with the suicide. Conclusion: Leenaars's theory has corroborative verification, through the decedents' suicide notes and the survivors' narratives. However, the multidimensional model needs further testing to develop a better evidence-based way of understanding suicide.

The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Hurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuclear Issue ◽  
The Relationship

The United States, Iran and the Bomb provides the first comprehensive analysis of the US-Iranian nuclear relationship from its origins through to the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. Starting with the Nixon administration in the 1970s, it analyses the policies of successive US administrations toward the Iranian nuclear programme. Emphasizing the centrality of domestic politics to decision-making on both sides, it offers both an explanation of the evolution of the relationship and a critique of successive US administrations' efforts to halt the Iranian nuclear programme, with neither coercive measures nor inducements effectively applied. The book further argues that factional politics inside Iran played a crucial role in Iranian nuclear decision-making and that American policy tended to reinforce the position of Iranian hardliners and undermine that of those who were prepared to compromise on the nuclear issue. In the final chapter it demonstrates how President Obama's alterations to American strategy, accompanied by shifts in Iranian domestic politics, finally brought about the signing of the JCPOA in 2015.

Nomadic Migration and Rural Violence in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-95
Author(s):  
Nsemba Edward Lenshie ◽  
Patience Kondu Jacob
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Migration Pattern ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
North East ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

The relationship between Fulani herdsmen and farmers has in recent years become hot-tempered motivated by competitive control of land resources, particularly in central and north-east Nigeria. In Taraba State, the ongoing nomadic migration pattern from the Sahel in quest of pastures has led to violent confrontation between Fulani herdsmen and farming indigenous natives. Using a descriptive approach consisting of documented evidence, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions, the analysis revealed that conflicts between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous native farmers have culminated in population displacement and destruction of life and property in numerous rural enclaves in Taraba State. Despite the consequences of the conflicts, the Taraba State government was unable to act proactively because of the centralization of command over Nigerian security agencies. Accordingly, the study suggests decentralization of security agencies in Nigeria, especially the police, as the way forward for effective security governance in Nigeria.

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