Diabetes self-management education through peer support has been beneficial, especially in regions with limited medical resources. Studying the effects of education offered by trained peers of patients will facilitate tailoring the peer-led education programs to the regions' specific needs. Here, we evaluated changes in diabetes-related indicators…

For students to gain the most out of education, they need to form long-term memories from experiences gained through active learning. The greatest distinction between active learning and traditional approaches involves the types of tasks and problems the students are challenged to solve. Active learning activities should be structured with student…

This study was conducted to determine the description of learning with the peer tutor method implemented through situation-based learning. The urgency of this study is to find out the problem posing ability of elementary school students as an intellectual skill that students must possess to support future competition. From the existing problems,…

The aim of this paper is to examine the strategies used by peer facilitators in improving students' academic performance in a previously disadvantaged university in South Africa. It also assesses whether peer facilitators are succeeding in this quest. This paper stems from a larger study on the implementation of peer academic support programmes,…

With COVID-19 compelling some countries to close their schools, e-learning has now become the primary mode of learning. Researchers have renewed their interest in users' acceptance of e-learning via different platforms, given the possibility of different results relative to what was known pre-pandemic. However, e-learning still poses issues such…

Successful writing requires self-regulated writing because of the complex and demanding nature of writing. Self-regulated writing is based on the interplay of metacognition and motivation. In order to enable students to become better self-regulated writers, certain metacognitive and motivational characteristics such as metacognitive strategy…

Most tertiary institutions have adopted the peer-tutoring approach to complement the traditional method of teaching and learning. The successful utilization of peer-tutoring as a teaching and learning strategy is determined by the effective administration of the entire process. This qualitative study investigated how the peer-tutoring process was…

This study provides an overview of efforts to improve experiential learning outcomes by integrating the curriculum of an upper-level Project Management (PM) course with an Introductory Programming (IP) course using a game-making project. Students in the PM course applied PM methods and techniques while supervising teams of students in the IP…

Human Anatomy and Physiology courses are "gateway" courses that students must pass with high grades in order to proceed through their program of study. However, student pass rates are often low, resulting in students attempting the course multiple times and delaying their graduation. Supplemental instruction performed by peer leaders is…

Purpose: The peer-assisted study sessions program (PASS) -- variously known as supplemental instruction, peer mentoring and peer-assisted learning -- is regarded as a global phenomenon in academic support interventions and has well established presence in higher education. The purpose of this study was to add to the body of knowledge of how PASS…

Most schools operate as hierarchical structures, where adult stakeholders largely dictate what counts as knowledge and how to teach it. While previous scholarship has documented the promise of youth-led initiatives to trouble hierarchical structures, these explorations tend to occur outside of schools and do not typically account for the kinds of…

Learning to read is of primary focus in the early grades. Reading can be a challenge for many students, especially those with disabilities. With rising class sizes, and more students with disabilities included in the general education setting, the need for more individualized support in literacy instruction is vital. Innovative approaches are…

Background: Teaching strategies using peers to influence student-learning outcomes are commonly used in physical education. Reciprocal peer learning is a teaching strategy where students work in pairs as tutor and tutee. Effective peer tutoring requires knowledge about the critical elements for correct performance (i.e. common content knowledge,…

Student engagement is critical to academic success, particularly in the interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering (BME). However, engaging and motivating students in class have become increasingly challenging, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating this difficulty. This Perspectives paper synthesizes the insights from three faculty…

Sex education in the United States is rarely comprehensive and inclusive, and individuals with disabilities are typically left out of sex education programs and conversations. When they do have access to sex education, it tends to focus on abuse prevention while ignoring sexual expression. The dearth of sex education available for disabled young…