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Peer Tutoring

Contributor(s): Mrs Agnes Gardner, Dr Agnes Tiwari, Prof Howard Davies and Dr Margaret O’ Donoghue

General tips shared by the academic staff

Example

2. Rehabilitation Sciences

Subject

  • 5 subjects of Rehabilitation Sciences

Design

  • Year 3 students tutor year one students.
  • Subject leaders operate the scheme such as selecting appropriate student tutors, planning the tutorial sessions, providing guidelines to tutors, obtaining from and giving feedback to tutors and tutees.
  • The scheme is advertised in the departmental website and tutors are recruited annually from April to May.
  • Subject leaders conduct orientation sessions and schedule meetings with tutors on tutorial contents and materials.
  • Peer tutoring’s training workshops are provided for tutors on how to teach their tutees.
  • Tutors and subject leaders keep in touch via email to decide on the content and to solve any problem. Tutors are paid according to the University’s standard rate.
  • Tutees are asked to complete the Tutorial Evaluation Form after the first and second tutorials so as to provide feedback or suggestion to the tutors.

Nursing Studies

Subject

  • Bachelor of Nursing Studies.
  • The project is first trial run for one year (Phase I) and implemented at a larger scale in the year after (Phase II)

Design

  • Year 2 students tutor year 1 students at a one to one ratio.
  • Tutors attend training workshops on how to teach their tutees at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the scheme in order to understand the scheme, and the peer-tutoring skills.
  • Students submit weekly lab reports to instructors, contribute online discussion forum and attend monthly workshops
  • Certificates are issued for both peer tutors and tutees and book tokens are given to tutors for reward.
  • Focus group interview (tutors, tutees, and comparison group) and questionnaires are administered before and after the implementation of the scheme in order to obtain tutors and tutees ‘s reflections and feedbacks on the scheme.
  • Similarly, Phase II is implemented more or less the same as Phase I, except certain contextual changes.

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