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Download full textDeFeo, Dayna Jean; Bonin, Dan; Ossiander-Gobeille, Megan – Journal of Developmental Education, 2017
Drop-in peer tutoring is the most popular model on college campuses, but a high student-tutor ratio suggests that students will spend the majority of their lab time working without the aid of a tutor. This study observed students in a drop-in tutoring center serving developmental math students and explored what they do in that independent time.…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Tutors, Tutoring, Remedial Mathematics
Peer reviewedSilverman, Sharon; Juhasz, Anne M. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1993
Describes a study of factors accounting for low levels of student participation in academic assistance programs, based on case studies of eight university students on academic probation who had rejected offers of academic assistance, using structured interviews and the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory and the Mooney Problem Checklist. Includes…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMacDonald, Ross B. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1993
Describes a study of tutors' experiences with small groups, offering findings from interviews with 37 tutors from 3 colleges as they relate to existing group dynamics research. Discusses tutor and tutee roles, group cohesion, identification of students' needs, development of a workable plan and timeline, jumpstarting, and floor management. Details…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Group Dynamics, Group Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedHock, Michael F.; And Others – Journal of Developmental Education, 1995
Investigates whether traditional academic tutors hired to work with underprepared university-level student athletes could learn to implement a strategic approach to tutoring. Indicates that tutors substantially changed their tutoring to include both cognitive and megacognitive learning strategies as well as subject materal. (Includes 27…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedRheinheimer, David C.; Mann, Ann – Journal of Developmental Education, 2000
States that matching tutors and students by gender had no effect on tutoring outcomes in a study at a large mid-Atlantic research university with a well-established tutor training program. A strong relationship was found between the grades students received in courses and hours of tutoring received, a pre-college academic predictor, gender, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grades (Scholastic), Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedVisor, Julia N.; And Others – Journal of Developmental Education, 1992
Describes a study of affective differences between 300 university undergraduates enrolled in an introductory psychology course, comparing students who elected to participate in Supplemental Instruction (a nonremedial, academic support model targeting high-risk courses) with those who did not. Assesses Supplemental Instruction's effects on locus of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, College Programs, Higher Education
