Crossing Pedagogical Oceans [microform] : International Teaching Assistants in U.S. Undergraduate Education / Rosslyn M. Smith and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5559046
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Smith, Rosslyn M
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED358812
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- Description:
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- Washington, DC : ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, 1992
- 4 p.
- Series:
- ERIC Digest.
- Summary:
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This digest summarizes a longer document with the same title that discusses the problem of using, training, and assessing international teaching assistants (ITAs) in undergraduate education. Legislative mandates have appeared to assess and improve language and pedagogical skills of ITAs, and academies have likewise responded with workshops and seminars. Assessment instruments used for screening ITAs include commercially produced tests, oral interviews and communicative performance tests, and teaching simulations. More ITA communication research is needed in the following areas: (1) classroom characteristics; (2) methods and materials facilitating ITA training and assessment; (3) personal and professional results of training on ITAs; (4) effective intercultural orientation; (5) appropriate assessment and training for international faculty members; and (6) how institutions define and identify ITAs and the impact of ITA training and assessment on institutional goals for internationalization and multiculturalism. University administrators can support these training and assessment efforts by developing clearly defined and fair policies involving ITA training and assessment and enforcing them, providing stable and adequate program funding, and supporting scholarships focusing on the issues raised by ITA assessment and training. (GLR)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: RI88063014.
- ERIC Note: For the full length report, see HE 026 561.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Communication Problems
- Educational Legislation
- Evaluation Methods
- Foreign Students
- Graduate Students
- Higher Education
- Inservice Teacher Education
- Instructional Improvement
- Language Proficiency
- Postsecondary Education
- Research Needs
- Speech Communication
- Teacher Evaluation
- Teacher Improvement
- Teaching Assistants
- Undergraduate Study
- ERIC Digests
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
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