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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Wow, I'm a shit prof magnet

So, it appears that I'm just attracting the "good" profs left right and centre.

I am marking for my department, and this term I got assigned two sections of Linear Algebra. However, there has been a change in the course examiner.

I'm marking two sections of the course, and one of them is for the course examiner. Today, I got this bunch of assignments with no instructions on what questions to mark, and solutions to the questions.

So, I sent him/her an e-mail asking about which questions to mark, and if it would be possible to get solutions to the questions. This was the response I got from the professor:

please mark 1.1: 7,11, 1.2: 5(b,c), 10(b,c)
If you do not know how to solve a particular
question please tell me. If you do not know
elementary linear algebra please let me give
this job to another person.

I'm being paid $11/hour, three hours a week per section, so a grand total of six hours, since I am marking two sections. I am not paid enough to mark the assignments, come up with my own marking scheme (although the prof later did give me how he would like the questions marked), do the assignment myself to obtain the solutions. The solutions should not be a requirement of the marker, in my opinion. And for $11/hour I certainly do not have to take verbal abuse, and an insult on my intelligence from a professor in my department.

I have sent an e-mail to the ombudsman professor, the one who tries to resolve conflicts between markers and professors. Let's hope that he can resolve this. If not, then this becomes a problem between me and the department, since the department did not resolve the conflict. Therefore, I would be going to the ombudsman at the University, and if the conflict is not resolved there, then it would become a conflict between me and the university.

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1 Comments:

At 1:56 AM, Blogger echomyst said...

I feel for ya.

You know those provincial tests that elementary and high school kiddies need to take nowadays in Ontario? I think markers get paid something like $100/day, and they get the solution booklet too :D

 

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