TY - GEN
T1 - Nailing the TA interview
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2017
AU - Leyzberg, Daniel Noah
AU - Lumbroso, Jeremie
AU - Moretti, Christopher M.
PY - 2017/6/28
Y1 - 2017/6/28
N2 - Where would we be without them? Teaching assistants (TAs) make it possible for us to deliver high-quality large-scale computer science courses with relatively few faculty. Though their responsibilities vary by institution, TAs often play a crucial role in student learning. The use of teaching assistants in computer science courses is a common and longstanding practice and, yet, little has been published about how to choose the best TAs among those interested in the job. This paper describes the development of an interview rubric in use by faculty teaching a large introductory computer science course to score applicant responses in a formal in-person 30-minute interview. We describe the motivation behind developing such a rubric, the initial development process, its refinement based on feedback provided by students about their TAs, and the preliminary results of implementing this hiring system.
AB - Where would we be without them? Teaching assistants (TAs) make it possible for us to deliver high-quality large-scale computer science courses with relatively few faculty. Though their responsibilities vary by institution, TAs often play a crucial role in student learning. The use of teaching assistants in computer science courses is a common and longstanding practice and, yet, little has been published about how to choose the best TAs among those interested in the job. This paper describes the development of an interview rubric in use by faculty teaching a large introductory computer science course to score applicant responses in a formal in-person 30-minute interview. We describe the motivation behind developing such a rubric, the initial development process, its refinement based on feedback provided by students about their TAs, and the preliminary results of implementing this hiring system.
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U2 - 10.1145/3059009.3059057
DO - 10.1145/3059009.3059057
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029473830
T3 - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 128
EP - 133
BT - ITiCSE 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 3 July 2017 through 5 July 2017
ER -