The impact of a peer-tutoring program on quality standards in higher education
The impact of a peer-tutoring program on quality standards in higher education
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DOI：
10.1007/s10734-011-9419-x
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
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5
通讯作者：
Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel
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作者：
Arco-Tirado, Jose L.;Fernandez-Martin, Francisco D.;Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel
本研究的目的是，在土木工程、经济学、药学和化学工程专业的一年级学生（N = 100）中，确定同伴辅导计划对防止学业失败和辍学的影响；另一方面，确定这种辅导计划对西班牙格拉纳达大学（University of Granada, Spain）最后一年或已经在研究生课程（N = 41）的学生导师的认知和元认知学习策略和社交技能的潜在好处。在建立和选择必要的测量工具来收集两个样本的人口统计和学术相关信息，并将一年级学生分配到实验组或对照组之后，干预包括在第一学期由学生导师领导的10次90分钟的辅导课程，这些导师依次接受了4次3小时的辅导内容培训，如计划和时间管理，认知和元认知学习策略，激励策略和使用为本课程特别设计的材料。结果显示，实验组在平均成绩、表现率、成功率和学习策略上存在显著差异，导师在学习策略和社交技巧上也存在显著的岗前差异。
The purposes of this study were, on one had, to determine the impact of a peer tutoring program on preventing academic failure and dropouts among first-year students (N = 100), from Civil Engineering, Economics, Pharmacy, and Chemical Engineering careers; while, on the other hand, to identify the potential benefits of such tutoring program on the cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies and social skills of student mentors in their last year of studies or already in a postgraduate program (N = 41) at the University of Granada (Spain). After building and selecting the measurement instruments necessary to gather demographic and academic relevant information on both samples, and assigning first-year students to either an experimental or control group, the intervention consisted of ten 90-min tutoring sessions during the first semester lead by student tutors who, in turn, had undergone four 3-h training sessions on tutoring contents like planning and time management, cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies, motivational strategies and the use of materials designed ad hoc for this program. The results show differences in favour of the treatment group on grade point average, performance rate, success rate and learning strategies and, also, statistically significant pre-post differences for the tutors on learning strategies and social skills.