Tutor Training: CSE 195

Tutor training for undergraduate classes at UCSD is provided mainly through CSE 195. This is a class offered every quarter for 4 upper division credits and has to be taken pass/no pass. It is administered by Gary Gillespie. The class meets once a week and Prof.Gillespie highlights the various standards that need to be met while tutoring students and grading their assignments. During the class meetings, either a guest speaker or Professor Gillespie will lead discussions on various topics related to tutoring at UCSD in CSE.Tutors will learn how to help students solve their own problems, how to transfer their problem solving skills to the students they assist, and how to help students without giving them the answer. Tutors will learn how to be clear and consistent in exam and homework grading to cut down on regrade requests from students. Tutors will be trained on a generic autograder that can collect assignments, set up test cases with descriptions, provide differences between student output and key output, distribute results to specified graders, and distribute and collect scores when done. Tutors will learn about options of course administration tools to effectively track scores. Additionally,the weekly meetings will provide a forum for discussion of experiences and situations that the tutors have encountered so that all present can learn fromthem.Lastly, we will discuss CSE logistics and University policies.

For more information please contact Gary Gillespie