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Cheng, Stephen; Johnston, Susan – Journal of Peer Learning, 2014
Supplemental instruction (SI) has proven highly effective at improving success rates in high-risk first and second-year courses, in part because peerled SI sessions inculcate best-practice study skills in a specific learning context which provides opportunities for skill mastery. A successful SI program in the Faculty of Science at the University…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Academic Support Services, College Faculty, Student Participation
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Doman, Evelyn – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2014
Supplemental Instruction (SI) has widely been used in university classrooms around the world. However, many obstacles face SI -- including low student attendance, lack of faculty support, and recognition of today's online generation. This research helps to fill the gap in SI by posing to solve the problems mentioned above by extending SI into the…
Descriptors: Tutors, Supplementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Menges, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
This paper describes a program to provide supportive services to high risk students in psychology beyond the beginning course. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Graduate Students
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Marshall, Sherrin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1994
Salem State College (Massachusetts) has used a supplemental instruction program as a professional development vehicle for faculty as well as an instructional aid for students. Over time, the program also evolved into a means to encourage leadership qualities in students and stimulate interest in teaching as a career. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
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Muhr, Carin; Martin, Deanna C. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
A permutation of the original program, TeamSI represents an ambitious attempt to improve both students' deep understanding of their knowledge in a professional discipline and their self-development as more mature learners and leaders.
Descriptors: Case Studies, Neurology, Media Adaptation, Leadership Training
Nash, Robert T.; And Others – 1989
This paper discusses the major components of Project Success, a nationally recognized learning disabilities (LD) support program on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Its goals include: each student will become academically and socially independent; each student will graduate from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh or some other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, College Programs, College Students
Buchanan, Harriette C. – 1989
The Videotutoring via AppalNet project at Appalachian State University in North Carolina offers supplementary, tutorial assistance to students in certain high risk courses such as history, biology, and mathematics. This program enables instructors to tape test review sessions which are broadcast live and then later rebroadcast at other times on…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Closed Circuit Television, College Instruction, College Students
Arendale, David – 1997
The Supplemental Instruction (SI) model of student academic assistance helps students master classes that have a history of a high degree of difficulty as they develop and integrate learning and study strategies. This paper reviews research on SI, developed at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which has been selected as an Exemplary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, College Students, Demonstration Programs
Patterson, Frank G.; And Others
The Conservation and Environmental Science Center for Southern New Jersey (CESC) has developed this manual for college participants in environmental education programs. The program and purposes of the CESC are described in some detail. This manual is designed to be used with college practicum groups who utilize one week of a quarter during the…
Descriptors: College Students, Conservation Education, Education Service Centers, Educational Planning
Martin, Deanna C.; Arendale, David – 1994
This paper discusses the Supplemental Instruction (SI) model of student academic assistance, a program recognized as exemplary by the U.S. Department of Education and developed at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) to help students in difficult postsecondary courses master course content while they acquire and integrate effective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, College Students, Courses