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<p>I’m sure he or she says that…but really, reading through it all and checking to see if fair and accurate? Seems completely unrealistic and unlikely. At that rate, it would be easier just to do the grading themselves. </p>
<p>I would also like to add that we shouldn’t just dismiss TAs or graduate students’ grading- or teaching for that matter- as inferior- tenure and quality are not necessarily correlated here. Some of our PhD students are award winning teachers getting higher evaluations that our best full time faculty devoted to teaching. They make fabulous graders! Graduate students ofttimes take grading and teaching extremely seriously, and are closer to the material (remembering how they learned what they did…so they can be more effective at helping students over hurdles). Some of my highest evaluations in my career came when I was a brand new grad student (at the tippy top school I did my PhD at, we PhD students taught our own courses to MBAs and usually got stellar ratings). I made faculty honor roll! Likewise, everyone is familiar with the arrogant, over the hill professor teaching the same outdated material who couldn’t care less about being competent in the classroom.</p>