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Rosander, Michael; Chiriac, Eva Hammar – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate how first-year students view the purpose of tutorial groups in problem-based learning. In all, 147 students from 24 groups participated, providing 399 statements. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. The results showed a focus on both learning and social influence. Learning involved the tutorial as…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Problem Based Learning, Group Dynamics, Data Analysis
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Chandler, Theodore A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Proposes a peer-teaching-peer strategy that utilizes the low-achieving External as the tutor, a reversal of the usual procedure. The assumption is that the External must experience and perceive personal control over another child in order to begin orientation toward a more internal outlook. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Psychology, Locus of Control
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Milne, Sue; Cook, Jean; Shiu, Edward; McFadyen, Angus – Educational Psychology, 1997
Reports on the development of a composite learner model for adaptive tutoring systems that combines a model of learner attributes with a simple overlay model of the learner's domain knowledge state. The system is able to select the optimal form of learning material to be presented for the subject. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Style, Computer Uses in Education