Rethinking the teaching roles and assessment responsibilities of student teaching assistants
In this position paper we focus on students who are contracted to fulfil teaching roles. While an accepted practice, student teaching assistants (STAs) tend to lack teaching experience as well as having only limited subject and pedagogical knowledge. As such, there is a trade-off between employing them and maintaining quality in teaching. We identify assessment feedback and grading as particularly important aspects of teaching that are often beyond the capability of many STAs. Rather than suggesting that students should not teach, we provide a nuanced examination of who these students are and ... Show more
Authors: Wald, Nave; Harland, Tony
Published: Abingdon, England, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2020
Resource type: Article
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