Index
Intro
Post-secondary teaching and research assistants assist university professors, community college and CEGEP teachers and other faculty members in teaching and research activities at universities and colleges.
Main Duties
Post-secondary teaching assistants perform some or all of the following duties:
- Organize reference materials, visual aids and other materials as required by university professors or college teachers for lectures
- Conduct seminars, discussion groups and laboratory sessions to supplement lectures
- Assist in the preparation and administration of examinations
- Grade examinations, term papers and laboratory reports.
Research assistants perform some or all of the following duties:
- Conduct literature reviews, surveys, laboratory experiments and other research for use in scholarly publications
- Compile research results and assist professors in the analysis of results and the preparation of journal articles or papers.
Post-secondary teaching and research assistants specialize in a subject matter based on their field of study.
Employment Requirements
- Enrolment in a university or college program is required.
All Titles
- college laboratory assistant
- college teaching assistant
- demonstrator, laboratory – post-secondary teaching assistance
- discussion group leader – post-secondary teaching assistant
- graduate assistant – university
- laboratory assistant, college
- laboratory assistant, university
- laboratory demonstrator – post-secondary teaching assistance
- laboratory supervisor – post-secondary teaching assistant
- marker – post-secondary teaching assistance
- post-secondary research assistant
- post-secondary teaching assistant
- research assistant – post-secondary
- research assistant, university
- teaching assistant – post-secondary
- teaching assistant – university
- teaching assistant, college
- teaching assistant, university
- tutor – post-secondary teaching assistant
- university laboratory assistant
- university research assistant
- university teaching assistant
Exclusions
- Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants (4413)
- Other instructors (4216)