Integrating Computer-Based Instruction and Peer Tutoring

Smith, Rebecca

doi:10.1177/105345129703300114

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“…For distance education, peer tutoring holds the promise of improving student rapport and building a community of tutors and tutees across geographic barriers. Unfortunately, research addressing peer tutoring in distance education is largely inconclusive, and peer tutoring programs aided by computers and the Internet remain underdeveloped (Jegede, 2002; Smith, 1997; Topping, 1996). Jegede's On‐campus/off‐campus Peer Tutoring Electronic Network (OPTEN) model, for instance, took advantage of online communication tools to facilitate tutorial sessions between students on and off campus; however, the roles of tutor and tutee were switched weekly, not based on the skill levels of the students involved in each interaction with the particular week's topic.…”

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confidence: 99%

Peer tutoring with the aid of the Internet

Evans

Moore

2012

Brit J Educational Tech

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While the positive effects of peer tutoring in a face-to-face classroom are well documented, studies of computer-aided peer tutoring are less common. However, such exercises have the potential to introduce additional student-student interaction in distance, online and blended courses. Additionally, technology can provide both students and instructors with unprecedented amounts of information related to tutor competency and methods. With these ideas in mind, we have developed a web-based peer-tutoring system called Opal (Online Peer-Assisted Learning) for use in problem-based undergraduate courses. Tutoring interactions on Opal use problems as both contexts for discussion and enforcers of tutor competency-that is, each interaction is based on a single problem, and students must demonstrate competency by answering the problem correctly on a computer before they become eligible to teach it. Based on social network analysis methods and a student assessment of learning gains survey, the introduction of this method of peer tutoring has had a positive effect on student-student interaction and student learning in our course and may have broad implications for peer tutoring in courses that involve digital problem solving as a key component.

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Peer tutoring with the aid of the Internet

Evans

Moore

2012

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…Several authors state that practitioners and researchers in the field should not be discouraged of trying peer tutoring with this type of students even though improvements may be not so great as with other type of students. In fact, the great margin of improvement from academic, social and psychological perspectives and the fact that some authors state that they may play an excellent role as tutors with an increased motivation must be considered as encouraging reasons for practitioners and researchers in the field [83] .…”

Section: Peer Tutoring In Mathematics With At-risk Learning Disabledmentioning

confidence: 99%