Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities?
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><em>Peer learning has long been recognised as an effective way to induct first-year students into the academic skills required to succeed at university. One recognised successful model that has bee...
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Queensland University of Technology
2013-04-01
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| description | <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><em>Peer learning has long been recognised as an effective way to induct first-year students into the academic skills required to succeed at university. One recognised successful model that has been extensively researched is the Supplemental Instruction (SI) model; it has operated in the US since the mid-1970s. This model is commonly known in Australasia as the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) program. Although there is a considerable amount of research into SI and PASS, very little has been published about the impact of peer learning on different student groups, for example indigenous and other ethnic groups. This article reports on the results from one New Zealand university of the effectiveness of PASS for Māori and Pasifika students. The questions this article seeks to address are whether attendance of the PASS program results in better final marks for these two groups of students, and whether the number of sessions attended has an impact on the final marks.</em></span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2b5caea8e65f4ae6a4a771cb5a639f522022-12-22T01:28:50ZengQueensland University of TechnologyInternational Journal of the First Year in Higher Education1838-29592013-04-0141859410.5204/intjfyhe.v4i1.14773Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities?Jacques van der Meer0Stephen Scott1University of OtagoUniversity of Otago<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><em>Peer learning has long been recognised as an effective way to induct first-year students into the academic skills required to succeed at university. One recognised successful model that has been extensively researched is the Supplemental Instruction (SI) model; it has operated in the US since the mid-1970s. This model is commonly known in Australasia as the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) program. Although there is a considerable amount of research into SI and PASS, very little has been published about the impact of peer learning on different student groups, for example indigenous and other ethnic groups. This article reports on the results from one New Zealand university of the effectiveness of PASS for Māori and Pasifika students. The questions this article seeks to address are whether attendance of the PASS program results in better final marks for these two groups of students, and whether the number of sessions attended has an impact on the final marks.</em></span>https://fyhejournal.com/article/view/147first-yearpeer-learningPASSMinoritiesacademic support |
| spellingShingle | Jacques van der Meer Stephen Scott Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities? International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education first-year peer-learning PASS Minorities academic support |
| title | Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities? |
| title_full | Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities? |
| title_fullStr | Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities? |
| title_short | Including everyone: A peer learning program that works for under-represented minorities? |
| title_sort | including everyone a peer learning program that works for under represented minorities |
| topic | first-year peer-learning PASS Minorities academic support |
| url | https://fyhejournal.com/article/view/147 |
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