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<p>Even it ***were ***true that the grad students at “these” universities are or were high SAT scorers, where do you get the idea that great students or great researchers are automatically great --or even adequate-- teachers? How many TA are there who consider the teaching part of their graduate studies a … vocation as opposed to indentured servitude? When and how did they gain the necessary teaching skills? How were they trained before being asked to lead a section, stand in front of a classroom, or grade students who are just a few years younger than they are?</p>
<p>PS Are the opinions of 2000 academics excluding the 50% who refuse to return the survey and the few hundreds who have publicly decried the “state of the PA assessment?”</p>