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Pirini, Jesse – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2017
Students can make huge gains in academic grades and confidence with the help of peer tutoring. This book provides practical, research-based strategies for anyone wanting to run a peer tutoring programme or to improve their own tutoring practice. The book focuses on two key components of tutoring: the tutoring relationship and tutoring tools. The…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Case Studies, Tutorial Programs
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Hodgson, Yvonne; Benson, Robyn; Brack, Charlotte – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This article reports on a programme in which peer-assisted learning (PAL) was combined with case-based learning (CBL) in a second-year radiologic biology unit of study. Our aim is to explore evidence of whether PAL supported the development of qualitative conceptions of learning. The programme involved students in small PAL groups preparing and…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Radiology, Biology
Bailey, Geoffrey K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Peer tutoring at the postsecondary level has been studied extensively, particularly over the last twenty years. Peer tutoring programs are common across institutional type and size in the United States (Boylan, Bonham, Bliss, & Saxon, 1995; Maxwell, 2001) given students' preferences for tutors who share age and status similarity (Cohen, 1986;…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Tutor Training
Maxwell, Martha, Ed. – 1994
This book presents 53 firsthand experiences of peer writing tutors. Each story explores a particular tutoring issue, from working with a quiet student to tutoring a student with a learning disability. Each tutor writes candidly in an informed and sensitive manner about successes and failures as partners in the collaborative learning process.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Higher Education, Peer Teaching
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Heward, William L.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1982
"Tutor Huddle," a classwide peer-tutoring system, is described, and the results of a case study implemented to evaluate its operation are discussed. (MP)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Dollar, Bruce – 1974
A case study, in-depth description, and analysis of a youth tutoring youth program are presented in this document. The approach used in preparing the study--mainly utilizing participant observation, site visits, and structured interviews--are detailed in a separate chapter. This is followed by a chapter of background information in which the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Children, Demonstration Programs
Goodlad, Sinclair, Ed. – 1998
This book provides an international, current account of the developments of mentoring and tutoring by students in tertiary and secondary education. Included are research reviews, case studies of mature projects, and ideas for new uses of student tutoring and mentoring. Chapter titles are as follows: "Students as Tutors and Mentors"…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Case Studies, College School Cooperation, College Students