Honor's Students as Peer Tutors for Problem-based Learning

Medical students as peer tutors: a systematic review

BACKGROUND While Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) has long occurred informally in medical education, in the past ten years, there has been increasing international interest in formally organised PAL, with many benefits for both the students and institutions. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to establish why and how PAL has been implemented, focussing on the recruitment and trainin...

Peer Assessment in Problem-based Learning: Students’ Views

The purpose of the present study was to describe the peer assessment experience from the viewpoint of the students themselves in a post-secondary educational institution which organizes its curriculum according to principles of problem-based learning. Here, assessing peers’ learning within the team is a continuous (i.e., daily) activity. To that end, a questionnaire containing statements inquir...

Assessing Learning Style Differences Between Honors and Non-Honors Students

Peer tutoring for college students with learning disabilities: perceptions of tutors and tutees.

Peer tutoring is a commonly provided support service for students with learning disabilities (LD) in institutions of higher education. A large-scale survey was conducted to evaluate the PERACH peer tutoring project for students with LD at 25 universities, regional colleges, and teacher training colleges in Israel. The purpose of the study was to understand the tutoring process from the point of...

Peer Help for Problem-Based Learning

This paper describes the I-Help peer help network, where helpers and helpees are paired according to the contents of their user models. Although originally designed for large groups, in this paper we suggest ways in which I-Help may be used in a small group, problem-based learning curriculum. The use of I-Help will be very different in this context: it is not expected to be necessary for all st...