Abstract
Here is a typical scene. After two teaching assistants, one experienced and one new, hand back the first graded assignment in the fall, the experienced TA gets a few students coming in to ask about how they can improve their work. The students may be upset, but they usually are not angry at the grader. They ask what they can do to improve their performance next time. Meanwhile, the new TA has a line of angry students coming in to argue that the grading wasn't fair. It happens every fall, and new TAs find themselves wondering why they are dealing with such an angry crowd when the more experienced ones are not. The reason new TAs hear the complaint about unfair grading far more often than senior ones is that experienced graders tend to follow four important rules. This article may help new teaching assistants from having to learn these rules the hard way. If TAs take this advice seriously, they will find teaching and grading far more pleasant, and their students will be more satisfied as well.
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