{"id":376,"date":"2010-04-08t13:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-08t13:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-07-29t18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29t18:27:08","slug":"outsourced-grading-of-student-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/04\/outsourced-grading-of-student-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"outsourced grading of student papers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"making the grade\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3412\/3492052267_6f697d7e6f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/>a recent <em>chronicle of higher education<\/em> article reports on the emerging practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/outsourced-grading-with\/64954\/\">outsourcing the grading of student papers to third-party companies<\/a>.\u00a0 for example, university of houston professor lori whisenant has outsourced some of the work her tas used to do to a company called edumetry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the graders working for edumetry, based in a virginia suburb of  washington, are concentrated in india, singapore, and malaysia, along  with some in the united states and elsewhere. they do their work online  and communicate with professors via e-mail. the company advertises that  its graders hold advanced degrees and can quickly turn around  assignments with sophisticated commentary, because they are not juggling  their own course work, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>proponents of this practice assert that this service, virtual-ta, is cheaper than hiring local graduate students as tas and provides more and better feedback to students on their work.\u00a0 others argue that tas who are only &#8220;virtual,&#8221; who don&#8217;t participate in other aspects of the course, can&#8217;t provide as meaningful feedback as on-site tas.\u00a0 there&#8217;s also the issue of lost opportunities for graduate students to gain teaching experience.<\/p>\n<p>what are your thoughts on outsourcing paper grading?<\/p>\n<p><em>image: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8587222@n08\/3492052267\/\">making the grade<\/a>&#8221; by flickr user jakevol2 \/ creative commons licensed<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a recent chronicle of higher education article reports on the emerging practice of outsourcing the grading of student papers to third-party companies.\u00a0 for example, university of houston professor lori whisenant has outsourced some of the work her tas used to do to a company called edumetry: the graders working for edumetry, based in a virginia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,46],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}