Background While there is an increasing pool of literature documenting the benefits of near-peer tutoring programme, little is known about the benefits for junior and senior peer tutors. Knowledge of the peer tutors' perceived benefits at different levels of seniority will aid in the development of a near-peer tutoring programme that will better fulfil both curricula and personal aspirations of...

Based on a panel survey filled by seventh grade students, who studied in Shaxi Middle School located Shaxi, Yunnan, China, after completing semester of Online English Peer Tutoring Program, the research applied data collected, including Exam grades and background information, with Regression Z-score to analyze effectiveness Private Tutoring. The analysis yields following findings: private tutor...

A growing body of research has shown the positive effects peer tutoring on students’ academic achievement, self-concept, attitude, social, and behavioral outcomes. There is, however, a paucity that focuses peer-tutoring interventions for Hispanic students. The current study examined classroom practices, as well program teachers’ behaviors within cross-age implemented in elementary middle school...

BACKGROUND Peer tutoring has been described as "people from similar social groupings who are not professional teachers helping each other to learn and learning themselves by teaching". Peer tutoring is well accepted as a source of support in many medical curricula, where participation and learning involve a process of socialisation. Peer tutoring can ease the transition of the junior students f...

The high attrition rate among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors has long been an area of concern for institutions and educational researchers. The transition from introductory to advanced courses has been identified as a particularly "leaky" point along the STEM pipeline, and students who struggle early in an introductory STEM course are predominantly at risk. Peer...

This paper presents two interventions to improve the peer learning practice in an Information System course; namely (1) class-based peer tutoring in small groups and (2) discussions on Facebook group of the course. The article aims at comparing the correlations between the learning outcomes with class-based peer tutoring as well as with Facebook engagement. The findings show that although the l...