The study of teaching assistant system in university
| Autor: | Huang-Zhen Wu, 吳煌珍 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 教育行政與政策發展研究所(Graduate School of Educ 98 Recently, both public and private universities in Taiwan are facing the problems like how to raise the quality of curricula and teaching, how to provide teachers with better teaching resources, how to improve graduate students’ abilities and qualities and so on. These universities are planning the systems and strategies to improve the quality of the higher education in Taiwan, which includes the instructions assisted by senior undergraduates or graduate students. These students who help instructors’ teaching are referred as TA(Teaching Assistants)in this paper. Teaching Assistants are an essential gear in the working of higher education system. They provide education services including three aspects: teaching, research and administration. TA system is currently commonly set in every university in Taiwan. Although TA system is common, the studies about it are rare. The issues about TA, like what role should a TA play in an university and whether TA functions well in helping teacher’s instructions, require further studies and discussions. This study aims to understand the role TA plays in a university and TA’s function. The research was conducted through interviews in order to know the practical phase about TA. The interviewees include the administrative staff, instructors, and graduate students involved in and responsible for the TA system. On the other hand, TA program has been put into practice in western countries for years, so the researchers collected the data about TA program in the U.S.A. These data include documents, journal, notices, web information and so on. With the data analysis, the study brings out several conclusions: first, setting a work team responsible for TA program can help the program be practiced more thoroughly; second, the selection procedures should be systematic and adaptive; third, the training programs should develop both students’ high-tech ability and humanity; forth, TA should be granted with the right to teaching and grading, and universities should establish a section to regulate TAs and respond to different situation; fifth, although TA can assist the teaching part, to reduce instructor’s teaching burden still requires the cooperation of other working systems. |
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