What is it about?
The students in our large introductory psychology class are broken into teams, with an undergraduate teaching assistant leading each team. We coded themes in text conversations to see if the teams interacted differently with each other and their teaching assistants. We also examined the extent to which their interactions changed their interest in the class as well as their final grade.
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Why is it important?
Many large college classes use graduate and/or undergraduate teaching assistants, but we had not previously examined the nature of their relationship. This study gives us information about what students talk about with each other as well as with their teaching assistants, and it helps us understand if we, as instructors, should be encouraging or discouraging certain behaviors in our teaching assistants.
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This page is a summary of: Making large classes feel small: An examination of student interactions with undergraduate teaching assistants., Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, December 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/stl0000290.
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