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Using Student-Led Tutorials to Improve Student Performance in Challenging Courses
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Serra, Ramiro; Martinez, Cecilia; Vertegaal, Cornelis J. C.; Sundaramoorthy, Prem; Bentum, Mark J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This article describes how a peer learning strategy called student-led tutorials (SLTs) can improve student performance in an electromagnetism course (EM). This study provides empirical evidence on how promoting student active participation in collaborative problem-solving activities improves performance rates. Background: In 2019,…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Advanced Courses, Tutorial Programs
BTRecurTutor: A Tutorial for Practicing Recursion in Binary Trees
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Hamouda, Sally; Edwards, Stephen H.; Elmongui, Hicham G.; Ernst, Jeremy V.; Shaffer, Clifford A. – Computer Science Education, 2020
Background and Context: Recursion in binary trees has proven to be a hard topic. There was not much research on enhancing student understanding of this topic. Objective: We present a tutorial to enhance learning through practice of recursive operations in binary trees, as it is typically taught post-CS2. Method: We identified the misconceptions…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Coding, Student Attitudes
Investigating and Improving Student Understanding of Quantum Mechanics in the Context of Single Photon Interference
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Marshman, Emily; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Single photon experiments involving a Mach-Zehnder interferometer can illustrate the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, e.g., the wave-particle duality of a single photon, single photon interference, and the probabilistic nature of quantum measurement involving single photons. These experiments explicitly make the connection between the…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Difficulty Level, Problem Solving, Action Research
Using Close Reading as a Course Theme in a Multilingual Disciplinary Classroom
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Freedman, Leora – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
An adaptation of the traditional literary concept of close reading was developed for use in a largely multilingual classroom in which both first language (L1) and second language (L2) students were struggling to comprehend theoretical, lexically dense texts in English. This simplified method of reading a text iteratively and critically is proving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Reading, Reading Strategies, Multilingualism
A Tutorial Design Process Applied to an Introductory Materials Engineering Course
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Rosenblatt, Rebecca; Heckler, Andrew F.; Flores, Katharine – Advances in Engineering Education, 2013
We apply a "tutorial design process", which has proven to be successful for a number of physics topics, to design curricular materials or "tutorials" aimed at improving student understanding of important concepts in a university-level introductory materials science and engineering course. The process involves the identification…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Science Education, College Students, Introductory Courses
Post-Foundation Tutorial Planning.
Phythian, Ted; Clements, Margaret – Teaching at a Distance, 1980
Detailed analysis of student attendance at British tutorial sessions indicate that mathematics tutorials are relatively well attended and attendance correlates well with course results. Regular attenders achieve higher marks than nonattenders. It is concluded that minimizing distances to be traveled to tutorials is important in program planning.…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Students, Difficulty Level, Extension Education