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Enhancing the Quality of Tutorials through Peer-Connected Tutor Training
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Calma, Angelito; Eggins, Mark – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
This paper investigates how a peer-connected tutor training program can lead to quality enhancement by helping tutors to develop more effective teaching strategies and promoting better learning approaches among business students. It uses 2007-2010 evaluation data from 343 program participants from accounting, economics, finance and management and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Tutoring, Teaching Methods, Tutors
Peer Tutoring at North East High School North East (Cecil County Public Schools), Maryland
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Shadle, Susan – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2010
A program at North East High School (NEHS) was started to help improve state test scores. Senior students work with underclassmen in one of the four state test areas: Algebra, English 10, Biology, and Government to help improve scores with hopes of passing the test. State test scores help to determine whether or not a school will meet their Annual…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Peer Teaching, Standardized Tests
The Impact of a Peer-Tutoring Program on Quality Standards in Higher Education
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Arco-Tirado, Jose L.; Fernandez-Martin, Francisco D.; Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The purposes of this study were, on one had, to determine the impact of a peer tutoring program on preventing academic failure and dropouts among first-year students (N = 100), from Civil Engineering, Economics, Pharmacy, and Chemical Engineering careers; while, on the other hand, to identify the potential benefits of such tutoring program on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests
Tutoring Strategies: A Case Study Comparing Learning Center Tutors and Academic Department Tutors
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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
Adapting Peer Tutoring for Learners Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
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Herring-Harrison, Tina J.; Gardner, Ralph; Lovelace, Temple S. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2007
The purpose of this article is to present a classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) model successfully implemented with children who are deaf. Classwide peer tutoring is relatively easy to implement and is both teacher- and student-friendly. A large and growing body of professional literature documents the effectiveness of systematic peer tutoring models.…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Tutor Training, Peer Teaching
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