Peer tutoring in higher education is an effective strategy for promoting academic gains. Within nursing, peer tutoring has been used in the clinical setting, but little information is available regarding its use across the nursing curriculum. A peer tutoring program was created at a regional Appalachian university to meet the needs of students with poor academic backgrounds and multiple risk fa...

This study explored the experiences of peer tutors a Korean language tutoring program at U.S. university. Using qualitative methodology and gathering data from pre- post-tutorial individual interviews, monthly in-program group reflective papers, this aimed to investigate eight tutors. The findings revealed reasons for being tutors, how addressed learners’ needs, importance empathy in tutoring, ...

This study describes the design and implementation of a naive computer peer agent called KORI-2. Unlike prevalent intelligent tutoring systems that implement a machine tutor replacing a human expert, teachable agent systems try to implement a machine peer tutee. Human student tutors are motivated to learn domain knowledge effectively while tutoring a machine tutee. With KORI-2, a human student ...

This study quantitatively and qualitatively examined socially shared regulation processes in peer tutoring. Participants were 22 teacher-candidate university students assigned to 11 peer-tutoring pairs. Peer tutoring included two sessions, which one student was the tutor another tutee. completed a of learning (SSRL) scale before an academic engagement measurement afterward. Moreover, sessions v...