Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Andrew Rosse-Richards, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David B Nelson, Purdue University; Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

: “I am confident that I can identify appropriate andeffective ways of addressing violations of academic integrity.” This resulted in the creation of a20-item survey that the students were asked to complete at the beginning of the morning sessionin order to measure their perceptions of self-efficacy related to the session objectives prior to theTAO (i.e., pre-survey). Then, at the end of the TAO, TAs were asked to respond to a post-assessment that contained the same 20 questions from the pre-assessment with an additionalquestion intended to measure the summative impact of the TAO (i.e., “I am confident thisorientation has prepared me for my role as a Teaching Assistant”), which was also set to a five-point Likert-type scale ranging from

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika A. Mosyjowski, University of Michigan ; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Diane L Peters, University of Michigan; Steven J. Skerlos, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

identities as motivators of action. Educational Psychologist, 44(2), 78-89.29. Bandura, A. (1977) Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191—215.30. Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence (2007). Adult Learners in Higher Education. Pennsylvania State University.31. Aycock Jr, G. L. (2006). Support Needed By Adult Learners To Accomplish Educational Goals In Higher Education.(Doctoral dissertation).32. Main, J. B. (2012). Trends in doctoral education: engineering students' perspectives on faculty advising. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.33. Khiewnavawongsa, S., & Schmidt, E. (2009). Assessment of the mentoring relationship between

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia A. Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

as microteaching) is a practice that is recommended by Prieto, Yamokoski, & Meyers(2007) for graduate student development because the practice helps increase TAs’ self-efficacy.21 Page 23.136.3During the 5-minute practice teaching, TAs plan & present a topic, reflect on their teaching withthe support of a trained facilitator (often a peer teaching mentor) and provide feedback to a smallgroup of their peers about their teaching. For students where English is their second language,we ask students to self-select into microteaching sessions where there is at least one facilitatorwho is trained to provide English language feedback and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

mentors and mentees, not on any official recommendations or suggestions.While the mentors were generally positive and optimistic program participants, differences ininitial assumptions or assumed understanding of program expectations led to variedinterpretations of their self-efficacy as mentors. Early on, several mentors explained theirperspectives on the difficulties of being a mentor without a clearly established structure: “Since she [my mentee] can only work on my primary project, she’s just been reading papers that are way over her head and helping me order stuff. The phase my project has been in is not hands-on. This lack of flexibility has also made meeting with her a drain on my time…When structured well