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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of my best teachers in college were grad students![/quote] Students are not the best judge of teachers. Students want likability, fun, and ease. High grades given to students correlate with high evaluation scores. Students often can't tell if a grad student actually knows the material. It's incredulous that many teaching evaluations ask students to rate the competence and knowledge base of the instructor--how would they know if they're being fed BS? Yes, there are excellent graduate students who teach well, but they're inexperienced and cheap labor for the university. With few exceptions, I would strongly encourage high school students to consider SLACs for undergrad where the teaching quality is overall much higher than at a research university. -Tenured prof at R1[/quote]
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