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Undergraduate Teaching Assistants: A Learner-Centered Model for Enhancing Student Engagement in the First-Year Experience
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Gordon, Jessica; Henry, Peter; Dempster, Michaux – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
In this paper, we provide an in-depth view of the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program at Virginia Commonwealth University as a potential model for other large research universities who might wish to implement similar learner-centered initiatives in their first-year experience courses. Unlike graduate teaching assistants, whose primary…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Research Universities, Student Role