Responsibilities and Duties: Post-secondary teaching assistants:
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
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.