Interview Questions

Name:
Department:
Class:

1) What do you think is the main purpose of grades?

2) What do you think is a fair distribution of final class grades and why?

3) Do you engage in curving class grades? If so, how?

4) Could you tell me about your grading policy? Do you have a syllabus I can have?
What are your actions toward keeping grades uniform across different discussion sections
with different TAs and across semesters?

5) Does the department provide any guidelines for ensuring fair grades? How so?

6) How are final grades weighted?

7) If student effort is incorporated into student grade, how? And how heavily? What is
the rationale for this?

8) How does grade inflation affect students?

9) Are your tests primarily essay format/short answer or multiple choice questions? If
essay format/short answer, than how is partial credit uniformly assigned?

10) Do you feel as though the university’s grading criteria need improvement? If so,
what might be some way to ensure uniformity amongst classes?