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Cameron Byerley; Carolyn Johns; Deborah Moore-Russo; Brian Rickard; Carolyn James; Melissa Mills; Behailu Mammo; Janet Oien; Linda Burks; William Heasom; Melissa Ferreira; Cynthia Farthing; Daniel Moritz – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2024
Undergraduate mathematics tutoring centres are prevalent in many countries; however, there is limited research-based evidence on effective organizational structures for these centres. In this study, we consider two research questions. First, how can the quantitative and qualitative data from 10 mathematics tutoring centres be organized for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
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Doug Enders; Jessica OShaughnessy – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This longitudinal study serves as a model for examining and understanding the role of editing and its contributing factors in writing center tutorials. The study quantifies the frequency of and time devoted to editing in over 4,000 writing center tutorials and finds these quantities differ in statistically significant ways when broken down by user…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Editing, Role
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Mary McDonald – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
This study is a follow-up to one on the pass rates of basic writers in a large, urban Midwestern university. Students who came for eight or more mandatory writing center tutorials for their basic writing course passed at a rate of 90% or higher each semester from 2013-2016. The current study examined their graduation rates. These students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
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Jenny Goransson – Writing Center Journal, 2024
This article shares findings from a survey study (n = 73) focused on writing center administrator (WCA) perceptions of two phenomena we see on many secondary and postsecondary campuses in recent years: writing centers expanding to become learning centers, and writing centers consolidating or merging with other tutoring services on campus. Through…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Administrators, Organizational Change
Jing Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Writing centers, an established, U.S.-rooted writing pedagogy, have spread across the globe, serving various populations in different countries. With Chinese universities' exciting endeavors to implement writing centers in their local contexts, little is known as to whether and how the writing center approach serves Chinese EFL students' specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Student Needs
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Munje, Paul Nwati; Nanima, Robert Doya; Clarence, Sherran – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Peer tutoring in higher education aims to enhance student learning, and confidence. In writing centres, peer writing tutors use critical questioning to make the tutorial sessions student-focused and productive. The nature of questions influences the outcomes of the tutorials, yet research has not devoted sufficient time to unpacking what form this…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Writing Instruction
Beaver, Alaina Feltenberger – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative study investigates tutor and student interaction in an online multiliteracy center (the Hub) at a major public research university. This study addresses a gap in the current literature on how writing centers transition to multiliteracy centers and prepare their tutors for consulting with students around aspects of design. There is…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Multiple Literacies, Qualitative Research, Tutors