Peer tutoring: procedures, promises, and unresolved issues

Krouse, James P.

doi:10.1177/074193258100100413

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“…One way a teacher might increase both the amount of time spent readmg and the amount of individualised instruction is to utlilise the expertise of peers. Peer tutorine has been practised in educational setting since very early times (see Allen, 1976;Krouse, Gerber & Kauffman, 1981), and academic gains accruing from peer tutoring have been demonstrated in a ^--^^ f f^^r^^ '^"'rf'^fV^^( 940 E. LIMBRICK et al were engaged in extra reading. The present study examined the usefulness of peer tutoring that involved low-progress tutors and tutees using a technique designed to provide appropriate reading experience for both.…”

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Reading Gains for Underachieving Tutors and Tutees in a Cross‐age Tutoring Programme

Limbrick

McNaughton

Glynn

1985

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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A cross-age peer tutoring programme in reading is described in which three underachieving 10- to 11-year-old students tutored three underachieving 6- to 8-year-old students. The programme, a modification of the 'paired-reading' technique of Morgan and Lyon, involved both concurrent modelling of correct reading and praise for reading independently by peer tutors. When given general instructions to help, tutors did provide some assistance, but specific training was necessary before appropriate tutoring behaviours were used. Both tutees showed marked improvements in oral reading and comprehension on classroom exercises and standardised reading tests.

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Reading Gains for Underachieving Tutors and Tutees in a Cross‐age Tutoring Programme

Limbrick

McNaughton

Glynn

1985

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…His famous wise words are "He who teaches others, teaches himself", found in his famous work Didactica Magna written circa 1631 (Bowermaster, 1978). However, this method has been practiced since the first century AD (Krouse, Gerber, & Kauffman, 1981). More proposals on learning by teaching were found in the second half of the 20th century, and it has become a subject of research ever since (Trovato & Bucher, 1980).…”

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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Learning by Teaching Technique among University-level English as a Foreign Language Students

Kasim

Muslem

Mustafa

2020

JLE

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Learning via teaching has been accepted as one of the best ways to achieve a deep understanding of a topic. This research was aimed at seeking scientific evidence to support this claim by comparing the scores the university-level EFL students obtained through the learning by teaching technique and those obtained by students who were taught traditionally using a teacher-centered approach. The experimental group consisted of 22 students who were taught pedagogical content knowledge, i.e. English Language Testing, traditionally for half of the semester and then teaching students at another university afterward. The control group consisted of 24 students who were taught language testing traditionally by the same instructor for the whole semester. Both groups were given a test to measure their content knowledge achievement; one test at the beginning of the semester and one at the end of the semester. Two-way ANOVA was used to compare the two groups’ scores, and find out how the differences in the scores was affected by the type of instruction. The results showed that there was significant evidence that the students’ scores improved significantly in both groups. However, the difference in test scores between pre-test and post-test did not depend on the type of instruction. Because the experimental group could achieve the same performance as those of the control group regardless of the shorter instruction period, it can be concluded that learning by teaching has potential as an effective method for teaching pedagogical content knowledge. Suggestions for possible modifications of this technique are discussed in this paper.

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