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Effects of a Service-Learning Program on University Students
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Hervás Torres, Mirian; Fernández Martín, Francisco D.; Arco Tirado, José Luis; Miñaca Laprida, María Isabel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: The low productivity that prevailing in recent years in Higher Education requires urgently institutional responses aimed to improving quality of university education contributing to the development among students of key competences for lifelong learning. In this sense, the aim of this research was to explore the effects of an…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests
Emotional and Cognitive Effects of Peer Tutoring among Secondary School Mathematics Students
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Alegre Ansuategui, Francisco José; Moliner Miravet, Lidón – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
This paper describes an experience of same-age peer tutoring conducted with 19 eighth-grade mathematics students in a secondary school in Castellon de la Plana (Spain). Three constructs were analysed before and after launching the program: academic performance, mathematics self-concept and attitude of solidarity. Students' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students
Influence of a Catalan Peer Tutoring Programme on Reading Comprehension and Self-Concept as a Reader
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Flores, Marta; Duran, David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
This study relates to the results obtained in the development of reading comprehension (RC) and self-concept as a reader in students who participated in "Llegim en parella" ("Reading in pairs"), a Catalan peer tutoring programme. The research combines a quasi-experimental design with the use of comparison groups and…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Peer Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Self Concept
Paradoxical Effects of Feedback in International Online Reciprocal Peer Tutoring
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Topping, K. J.; Dehkinet, R.; Blanch, S.; Corcelles, M.; Duran, D. – Computers & Education, 2013
This paper reports an online reciprocal peer tutoring project for improving language competence in Spanish and English. Students aged 9-12 years from Scotland and Catalonia were matched to act as tutors in their own language and as tutees in a modern foreign language. Students were intended to improve both their first language (through helping the…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension
Peer-to-Peer Teaching in Higher Education: A Critical Literature Review
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Stigmar, Martin – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2016
The aim of my critical literature review is to identify studies where students are engaged as partners in teaching in higher education and to analyze how tutors and tutees benefit from peer teaching. Thirty studies were included for review. Thirteen countries are represented and two thirds of the studies conducted in the United States of America…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews
Effects of Peer Tutoring on Reading Self-Concept
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Flores, Marta; Duran, David – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This study investigates the development of the Reading Self-Concept and of the mechanisms underlying it, within a framework of a reading programme based on peer tutoring. The multiple methodological design adopted allowed for a quantitative approach which showed statistically significant changes in the Reading Self-Concept of those students who…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Achievement, Self Concept