Psychology TA Evaluation
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006

Dear Professor: Please submit one form for each TA assigned to your course (graduate students as well as undergraduates or postbacs). This information will be used in TA development and training, and will help in future TA assignments. In addition to this evaluation, you must assign a letter grade in PSYC G6500 to each of your graduate student TAs; you will do this directly via the web grading link on the SSOL page.
Course:
Your E-mail Address:
TA's Name (Last, First):

What duties did this TA perform?

Please respond "yes" to any task this TA performed--even if rarely and/or unsatisfactorily--and "no" to all others.

Attended class lectures yes
no  		Set up classroom equipment yes
no 
Held weekly office hours yes
no  		Held weekly (optional)
Q & A sessions		 yes
no 
Wrote quiz/exam questions yes
no  		Held review sessions before exams yes
no 
Graded quiz/exam questions yes
no  		Provided clerical help yes
no 
Created assignments yes
no  		Graded written assignments
(other than exams)
yes
no 
Created web pages yes
no  		Created lecture materials for prof yes
no 
Attended TA meetings yes
no  		Mentored other TAs yes
no 
Led (required) discuss. secs per week  
Led (required) lab sections per week  
Gave guest lecture(s)  
Other TA activities? Please list:
 

Please Evaluate this TA

1. Overall how satisfied were you with this TA?

2. Please comment on this TA's performance in each of the following areas.

A. The TA's effectiveness and promptness in performing assigned tasks
(Please mention your sources of information, e.g., direct observation, samples of graded student work):
B. The TA's contribution to the class as a whole
(e.g., Did s/he share ideas and assignments with other TAs? Advise or mentor other TAs? Share in the workload?):

C. The TA's effectiveness in the classroom
(Please mention your sources of information, e.g., direct observation, student evaluations, comments from students):

D. Other Comments:

3. What are the particular strengths of this TA?

4. What are the areas in which s/he could improve?
Please include any suggestions you have regarding strategies for improvement.

5. If a graduate student, what grade did you assign this TA for G6500?
[Note: You must submit this grade yourself via SSOL's web grading feature.]

Please submit this form

(If you are then asked to supply missing data, use the browser "back" button to return to the form without losing your data.)

When you submit this form, you will receive an Acknowedgement via the web, with a copy of the data you entered. Copies of your responses will be emailed to lep1@columbia.edu and to the address you provided at the top of the form. In addition, the form data will be written to a confidential file located in Lois Putnam's cunix directory. These data will be made available to the Dept. Chair and to the Director of Graduate Studies.

If you have multiple TAs to evaluate, use the browser's "back" button to return to the evaluation form from the Acknowledgement page. In this way you will not need to enter personal or course information more than once.

The use of this form in the evaluation of our TAs is part of the evaluation process approved by GSAS and described in our Graduate Student Teaching Guidelines. This form was adapted from one used at the University of Minnesota. We welcome your suggestions for improvements.

This page is maintained by Lois Putnam. It was last modified on December 12, 2005