The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education
Description of Teaching Assistantship
The Departments of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology and Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation offer One Teaching Assistantship for one graduate course: EDP/EPE 557 Gathering, Analyzing, and Using Educational Data I. This course is a pre-requisite for taking additional quantitative-related courses and taken primarily by Master and Doctoral level students. As such, the course includes a considerable amount of basic statistical and graphical methods used to describe and analyze data in the social sciences.
The Teaching Assistant (TA) serves as the lab assistant for three (3) sections each academic semester (of approximately 15 – 18 students each) of their given course. As lab assistant, you are responsible for all aspects of planning labs, teaching labs, and holding office hours. Considerable guidance and supervision are provided by the course instructor. In addition to their regularly scheduled classes and office hours, Teaching Assistants are required by the Graduate School to attend preliminary training (usually around three (3) days at the beginning of the Fall semester) and bi-weekly supervision meetings. Preference for TA assignment is given to doctoral students and those with experience working with statistics and completion of intermediate and advanced statistics courses (e.g., EDP/EPE 660: Research Design and Analysis in Education, EDP/EPE 707: Multivariate Analysis in Educational Research).
Currently, the Teaching Assistant has the use of a shared office space in Taylor Education Building. The assistantship includes a stipend and tuition reimbursement. Contract is for one year and renewable for a second-year based on satisfactory performance and availability of funding. The student accepting a Teaching Assistantship is expected to be available for a two-year term.
Application Process for the 2012-2013 academic year:
Current students are encouraged to apply ASAP, while prospective/incoming students should apply as soon as they have received an official letter of admission to their program. In both cases, all application materials (listed below) should be forwarded via e-mail to Dr. Michael Toland at: toland.md@uky.edu. The deadline for application submission is Friday, March 30th, 2012. In your application, please provide the following:
- Name and Program of study/Academic department affiliation, including level (i.e., Ph.D., Ed. S., or Masters)
- Indicate in your application that it is for EDP/EPE 557 teaching assistant position
- Quantitative courses completed or currently taking. Note: course numbers alone are not informative; please provide course titles or a very brief description of the content.
- Curriculum Vitae with description of relevant teaching, research and/or work experiences
The recipient of the Teaching Assistantship will be notified in April, 2012.
