Meeting the social and emotional needs of first-year mathematics students through peer-tutoring

Academic under-performance among first-year university students calls for effective support systems. In this regard, a peer tutor-mentor programme was introduced at a private university in South Africa to improve the academic outcomes of vulnerable first-year mathematics students enrolled in an aca...

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Main Authors: Irene Maitland, Eleanor Lemmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2011-12-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1333