Understanding Your Time and Value.

Revenue Generator and Time for Grading Calculators

TIME FOR GRADING CALCULATOR

This calculator will tell you how much real, actual, experiential time you have to do your grading on a per student, per assignment basis.

Each week as a TA you spend a certain number of hours specifically involved with other work (lecturing, attending the Instructor's lecture, etc.) and that time takes away from your time grading. This calculator subtracts the time you spend in class and in office hours from your total assignment, then divides the remaining time by the number of assignments you have to grade that week.

Example: You have a 20-hour appointment as the Instructor of Record for two sections of a class. The classes meets three times per week each, meaning you spend six (6) of your 20 hours in class. Say you also hold one office hour per week for each section. You’re now left with just 12 hours per week for grading, lesson planning, reading, etc. If you assign a discussion post and quiz each week and between your two sections you teach 47 students, you have 94 assignments to grade in 12 hours, leaving you just 7 minutes and 40 seconds per assignment to grade! Including Prep time only makes this amount smaller!

How many hours is your assignment (Ex. 'Full-time' = 20 hours)?

How many hours do you spend in class in your assignment (two 3-credit courses = 6 hours)?

How many hours do you spend giving office hours?

How many hours do you spend preparing each week?

How many total students do you teach?

How many graded assignments do you handle per week?




You have (not enough minutes!!!) minutes per student per assignment to grade each week!


p.s. If you're good at coding and/or data management and care about these kinds of issues, please consider joining TUGSA as we continue to develop (significantly more sophisticated) tools to educate our members on their working conditions! Email union@tugsa.org!

REVENUE GENERATOR CALCULATOR

This calculator will tell you approximately how much revenue you earn for Temple University through your duties as a TA. This value is calculated by multiplying the average cost of an undergraduate credit ($1,415) by the number of credits the course is worth (usually 3, or a smaller number if you only teach a lab, feel free to estimate) by the number of students you teach (totalled over all the sections).

For instance, if you're the Instructor-of-Record for two sections (one with 22 students the other with 27) of the 3-credit Math 101 course, then your student count would be 49, your credit counted would be 3, and your total generated revenue would be 49x3x$1,415 = $208,005. Say instead you only taught the labs for those sections, then maybe you're only responsible for 1 credit. Many TAs are not instructors of record, but assist with grading, recitation, course materials, tutoring, etc. In those cases, estimate the number of credits as best you can and try a few numbers. You know better than anyone how much time, energy, and work you commit to your students and the university!

How many students are in the sections you're responsible for?

How many credits is the section (or sections) that you are responsibile for?




You generate $(way more than you make!!!) in tuition revenue for Temple University each semester!