Alumno colaborador
English translation: student assistant
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| 09:28 Mar 1, 2013 |
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|  Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 14:47 | ||||||
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| 4 +2 | student assistant |
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| 5 | contributing student |
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contributing student Explanation: There are lots of refecences in google about this term Reference: http://https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/1260... Reference: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~hamer/caledonian.pdf |
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peer agreement (net): +2student assistant Explanation: I think this would probably be the best term to use. "Alumno colaborador" is a "figura", a formally defined position, included in the statutes of at least some Spanish universities. It really means a student who assists as required with departmental activities. In principle, it is primarily designed to support departmental research projects (not one particular project), but the alumno colaborador may be called upon to help with teaching-related or administrative matters: helping to compile teaching materials and bibliographies, or just organising the departmental files. Here is a bit of the Reglamento de Alumnos Colaboradores of the University of Córdoba: Artículo 3. El alumno colaborador tendrá la obligación de colaborar en cualquier proyecto de investigación, personal o colectivo, del Departamento cuando sus servicios sean requeridos. Artículo 4. El alumno colaborador deberá atender a la realización de las tareas encomendadas por el Departamento y que sean propias del mismo (como, por ejemplo: organización de ficheros, vaciados de revistas, etc), siempre que estas tareas no repercutan en perjuicio de su labor investigadora." http://www.uco.es/ciencias_lenguaje/ficheros_comunes/doc/col... And here's a similar document from Cádiz: "El presente reglamento tiene por objeto regular la figura de Alumno Colaborador que se introduce en el Artículo 137 de los Estatutos de la Universidad de Cádiz. Con ella se trata de estimular la participación de los alumnos en las actividades propias de los Departamentos facilitando fundamentalmente su iniciación a las tareas investigadoras. También se considera oportuno hacer posible que a través de esta figura los alumnos puedan participar en determinadas funciones de colaboración en docencia, tales como la búsqueda de bibliografía y materiales de apoyo para las asignaturas, la colaboración con el profesor en la preparación de temas o ejercicios y en el diseño de tareas, o incluso la realización de posibles funciones de ayuda a otros alumnos en aquellas actividades académicamente dirigidas previstas en las asignaturas pero que se desarrollen como complemento a las clases y en un horario diferenciado, sin la presencia del profesor; todo ello sin que en ningún momento pueda entenderse que es el alumno colaborador el que imparte las clases regladas teóricas y prácticas, cometido que corresponde exclusivamente al profesor." http://www.uca.es/web/organizacion/normativa/documentos/alum... So they can't teach classes, though they can assist. They are primarily, though not only, research assistants. If you look on the Internet, you can find people who've held this position complaining that they've been used as little more than clerical assistants. So I think "teaching assistant" gives it the wrong emphasis. "Contributing student", from what I can tell, is not a formal position; it describes a teaching philosophy ("contributing student pedagogy"). The more literal "student collaborator" is certainly a possibility, but that term tends to apply to a student chosen by a professor to collaborate with him/her in a particular research project, as here, for example, at Brown University in the US: http://brown.edu/academics/college/fellowships/utra/apply In principle, "departmental student research assistant" might be the most accurate description, but since the responsibilities are so open-ended, I'd just say "student assistant". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2013-03-01 11:54:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Particularly since it sounds as though your friend was helping with what is essentially an administrative task, rather than a research project. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2013-03-01 12:14:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Maybe you could say "Student Assistant helping with teaching quality assessment", with "Student Assistant" capitalised to indicated that it's a formal position. |
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