Trends in Peer Learning

Topping, Keith J.

doi:10.1080/01443410500345172

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“…According to Peterson and Miller (2004) along with Topping (2005), students will experience positive involvement in group work when they have appropriate skills for the task. A very important aspect in the case of group work is that the students must be trained for such a mode of working, that is, to be able to focus on the task.…”

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Teachers’ leadership and students’ experience of group work

Chiriac

Granström

2012

Teachers and Teaching

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Teachers’ leadership and students’ experience of group work

Chiriac

Granström

2012

Teachers and Teaching

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“…Indeed, Topping (2005) argues that the effectiveness of PAL often depends on whether the program is organised and implemented well. A key issue here is maintaining the right balance between the legitimate aspirations of students to pass the exam, and the broader pedagogic aims of PAL; a point that is made by O'Donnell (2004, p.10) in his assessment of the Macquarie experience.…”

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Peer-Assisted Learning in Accounting --- A Qualitative Assessment

Dobbie¹,

Joyce²

2009

ASS

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Since 2003, Macquarie University has operated a peer-assisted learning (PAL) program in several accounting units. This paper presents the results of a qualitative assessment of that program. The data were collected via a series of focus groups with student participants and student leaders involved in the peer-assisted learning program. The focus group discussions were transcribed and analysed. The results suggest that peer-assisted learning at Macquarie generates significant academic and non-academic benefits for all those involved. The analysis did, however, reveal a number of ways in which the program could be improved. Two areas stand out in this respect: first, it is essential that the program is suitably supervised by relevant academic staff. Second, the quality of the training given to PAL leaders is crucially important.

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“…Peer leaning and peer assessment has been recommended and is gaining favour as a learning technique (Topping 2005). Using this approach, students learn from peers by collaboratively studying and assessing other students' work, and evidence suggests that this learning is particularly improved when the assessment method includes feedback about products and processes (Van Den Berg et al, 2006;Bloxham and West, 2004).…”

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Generic Skills to Reduce Failure Rates in an Undergraduate Accounting Information System Course

Young¹,

Aoun²

2009

ASS

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This paper reports on an initiative to reduce the failure rate in an undergraduate accounting information systems course without compromising academic standards. The initiative relied on the development of generic skills in the major assessment tasks. The result was to significantly improve the amount of effort students applied to their internal assessment tasks and also to reduce the overall failure rate. Recommendations are made for practice and linked to the literature on failure in academia.

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Trends in Peer Learning

Cited by 1,031 publications

References 30 publications

Teachers’ leadership and students’ experience of group work

Teachers’ leadership and students’ experience of group work

Peer-Assisted Learning in Accounting --- A Qualitative Assessment

Generic Skills to Reduce Failure Rates in an Undergraduate Accounting Information System Course

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