论文标题
整个欧洲计算机科学教育方面的助教面临的挑战
Challenges Faced by Teaching Assistants in Computer Science Education Across Europe
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论文摘要
助教（TAS）在计算机科学课程中大量使用，以处理高级入学率，并且仍然能够为学生提供个人辅导和详细的评估。 TA本身就是学生在同一机构自己的研究并行扮演这一额外角色的学生。先前的研究表明，成为TA可能具有挑战性，但主要是在单个机构或单个课程中进行的TA进行。本文为计算机科学面临的挑战提供了多机构的跨国观点。这是通过对来自欧洲三个机构的TA撰写的180篇反思性论文的主题分析来完成的。主题分析带来了五个主要挑战：成为专业的TA，专注于学生的挑战，评估，定义和使用最佳实践以及对最佳实践的威胁。此外，所有三个机构的论文中都确定了这些挑战，这表明所确定的挑战并非特别依赖上下文。基于这些发现，我们还概述了参与TA培训的教育者和与TAS的计算机科学课程协调员的影响。
Teaching assistants (TAs) are heavily used in computer science courses as a way to handle high enrollment and still being able to offer students individual tutoring and detailed assessments. TAs are themselves students who take on this additional role in parallel with their own studies at the same institution. Previous research has shown that being a TA can be challenging but has mainly been conducted on TAs from a single institution or within a single course. This paper offers a multi-institutional, multi-national perspective of challenges that TAs in computer science face. This has been done by conducting a thematic analysis of 180 reflective essays written by TAs from three institutions across Europe. The thematic analysis resulted in five main challenges: becoming a professional TA, student focused challenges, assessment, defining and using best practice, and threats to best practice. In addition, these challenges were all identified within the essays from all three institutions, indicating that the identified challenges are not particularly context-dependent. Based on these findings, we also outline implications for educators involved in TA training and coordinators of computer science courses with TAs.
