Job position, job responsibilities, and work hour limitations for TAs

1. TAs:
a) What they do: offer assistance with in-class applications, host office hours, grade course
work, and proctor exams when requested by the instructor.
b) What they do not do: attend lectures, create their own answer keys, and/or assist
professors with the grading of midterm or final exams.
c) Qualifications: A TA must have taken the course prior to becoming a TA for the course and
must have received a minimum A grade for the course. All TAs should maintain a
minimum CGPA of 3.0 in order to be eligible for this position.
2. Work hour limitations:
a) TAs will be allocated up to a maximum of 1 hour to grade for every 14 students.
Graders/TA will be required to provide weekly time reports. We may require the course
instructor to approve their grader/TA timesheet before it is submitted to the TA/Grader
Manager.
b) 1 hour per 14 students is approximately:
i.
6 hours to grade for a class of 80
ii.
4.5 hours to grade for a class of 60
iii.
3 hours to grade for a class of 40
* An additional 45 minutes will be granted for increments of 10
PROCTOR GUIDELINES
a) The proctors general duties include the following:
a. Classroom observation;
b. Immediately reporting incidences of cheating to the instructor; and
c. Implementing preventative measures to stop inappropriate behaviors (e.g., walking
over to and standing near disruptive students).
b) Proctors are NOT allowed to confront students during exams for any reason (e.g., do not
take tests away from students). This is the sole responsibility of the instructor.
c) Please also email Carina Gutierrez a quick summary of your observations from your
proctoring session, including:
1. The name of the professor/teacher
2. The course number
3. The approximate number of students in the class
4. The number of students that you caught cheating and reported to the instructor
5. The number of students that the teacher caught cheating and how he took action
6. Your assessment of how well the professor/teacher actively participated in helping
you proctor the exam and collect tests from cheating students (you are there to
supplement the teacher because the class is too large for one person, not substitute
for the teacher). For example, you may simply say excellent, average, or
poor
Additional Information for F-1 Students
No student should be scheduled for more than 17 work hours in one work week without prior
written approval from both the TA/grader manager and NPU HR. Additionally, F-1 students cannot
work more than 20 hours in one work week under any circumstance. Doing so is a violation of
immigration laws and rules, and the violating students SEVIS record would be terminated
immediately.