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Waiting and Help-Seeking in Math Tutoring Exchanges
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DeFeo, 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
Training Strategic Tutors to Enhance Learner Independence.
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Hock, 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
A Social Psychological Analysis of Peer Tutoring.
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Medway, Frederic J. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1991
Reviews studies of psychosocial variables that maximize outcomes in peer tutoring programs. Considers research on tutoring behaviors and their relation to outcomes; effective tutorial instruction methods; expectations and attributions in tutoring settings; tutorial roles and student pairings; and cooperative learning formats. Makes recommendations…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Literature Reviews
Student Development and Metacognition: Foundations for Tutor Training.
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Rings, Sally; Sheets, Rick A. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1991
Advocates grounding a tutor training program in research-based theoretical models, such as student development and metacognitive theories. Recommends that tutor training cover student development philosophy, effective communication skills, campus resources, instructional support materials, learning theory/learning styles, metacognitive approaches…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Metacognition, Peer Teaching
Talking to Learn: Conversation Workshops for ESL Students.
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Haas, Teri; Smoke, Trudy – Journal of Developmental Education, 1990
Recommends instituting conversation workshops to help English-as-a-Second-Language students acquire language competence and factual and cultural knowledge. Reviews Hunter College's workshop program whereby students work with peer tutors in a writing lab discussing various informal and academic topics or the information covered in specific content…
Descriptors: Colleges, Communication Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Exchange
The Effects of Expectations, Sex, and Ethnicity on Peer Teaching.
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Maxwell, Martha – Journal of Developmental Education, 1991
Reviews factors affecting the tutoring process, including students' expectations of tutors; equitable tutor-tutee relations; and tutor gender. Considers ways tutoring can capitalize on peer relationships and reasons that students earn higher grades with a same-sex tutor. Suggests that tutor training address cultural sex stereotypes, ethnic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Ethnicity, Literature Reviews, Minority Groups