Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine E. Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

emphasis inconsistency” with a teaching supervisor who teaches another section of the same course. Thesupervising professor developed the course materials that Mary is using, and the two sectionsshare a syllabus and course website. During meetings about the course Mary believed she madesome suggestions but that they were not often accepted for implementation. Mary has mademinor changes to the lecture, “added in a few, one or two things maybe throughout… like addingin a slide or two or an example”, and to the exams. Her supervisor “provided the old exams and Ikind of added some new questions and rewrote some of the old questions”. Still, Mary reportsnot making many changes because “I don‟t know, I just didn‟t feel that I could, I guess”. At