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Facilitating Learning in Large Lecture Classes: Testing the "Teaching Team" Approach to Peer Learning
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Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F.; Lang, Sarah; Maas, Martha – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
We tested the effect of voluntary peer-facilitated study groups on student learning in large introductory biology lecture classes. The peer facilitators (preceptors) were trained as part of a Teaching Team (faculty, graduate assistants, and preceptors) by faculty and Learning Center staff. Each preceptor offered one weekly study group to all…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Learning Centers (Classroom), Lecture Method