Please join the CTLE for the following upcoming Faculty Advancement Series event:
Friday, 13 Nov 2009 · 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. · STT 590
Vincent G. Munley, Ph.D (Lehigh Univ., Dept. of Economics)
Peer tutoring is a commonly employed strategy at universities in economic education as well as other disciplines where developing problem solving skills is a key element in mastering the subject matter. While there appears to be a general consensus that peer tutoring is a successful learning technique, and its practice is supported by multiple professional organizations, little direct evidence has been gathered about the quantitative magnitude of its effectiveness.
In this presentation, Dr. Munley will examine the evidence at Lehigh University. The results suggest that the peer tutoring program has a positive and significant impact, though in order for the program to improve the expected letter grade, a student need participate in the program on average for about one hour per week over a fourteen-week semester.