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Weekly Group Tutorials Enhancing College Higher Education Students' Experience and Persistence
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Isabel Hallam – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
It is recognised personal tutors play a role in supporting university students to complete their studies. However, approaches to tutoring differ widely across higher education, resulting in a paucity of reliable impact evidence. The college higher education provider in this research has weekly group tutorials for undergraduates. This mixed method…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Group Instruction, Academic Persistence, Undergraduate Students
Examining the Academic Effects of Cross-Age Tutoring: A Meta-Analysis
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A. Chang; E. Mauer; J. Wanzek; S. Kim; N. Scammacca; E. Swanson – Grantee Submission, 2025
Cross-age tutoring is an educational model where an older tutor is paired with a younger tutee, valued for its economic advantages and capacity to engage participants. This model leads to improvements in both academic performance and behavior, as evidenced by Shenderovich et al. ("International Journal of Educational Research, 76,"…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Cross Age Teaching
Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme. Tertiary Tuition and Beyond: Transitioning with Strengths and Promoting Opportunities
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Wilks, Judith; Fleeton, Ellen Radnidge; Wilson, Katie – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
The Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme-Tertiary Tuition (ITAS-TT) has provided Australian government funding for one-to-one and group tutorial study support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending Australian universities since 1989. It has been a central plank supporting Indigenous university students in their studies.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Tutorial Programs, Transitional Programs, Tutors
But Science Is International! Finding Time and Space to Encourage Intercultural Learning in a Content-Driven Physiology Unit
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Etherington, Sarah J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
Internationalization of the curriculum is central to the strategic direction of many modern universities and has widespread benefits for student learning. However, these clear aspirations for internationalization of the curriculum have not been widely translated into more internationalized course content and teaching methods in the classroom,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Time Factors (Learning), Physiology
The Academic Progress of Foreign Students: Study Achievement and Study Behaviour.
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Jochems, Wim; And Others – Higher Education, 1996
A study of 170 foreign university students in the Netherlands shows that while their success rate was similar to native students', it took them more time to complete examinations, and language proficiency and home-country selection procedures were major factors in achievement. Implications for foreign student policy are explored, and a mentor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Microcomputer Learning with a Tutorial Program--Manipulating Group Size and Exposure Time.
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Baron, Lois J.; Abramai, Phillip C. – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1992
Investigated the effects of group size and exposure time in the use of a commercially prepared tutorial program or drill-and-practice software by 168 fifth and sixth graders. Found that exposure time was related to students' scores on posttests. Results suggested a need to examine allocated time in microcomputer learning situations. (LB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software