Abstract: This study is focused on the effects of a peer-tutoring program for improving engineering math education and searching for more higher academic achievements such as encouraging to learn for higher performance and to work hard for themselves. The peer-tutoring program has been carried out with 60 for advanced engineering mathematics. As a result of a survey, it was found that the peer-tutoring program is effective in learning performance and self-efficacy and developing community spirit. The remarkable thing is that the program had more positive effects on the tutors than the tutees, although it was intended to give benefits to the latters. In this case, a tutor acts responsibly as a leader of his/her team throughout tutoring, and it leads to encouraging tutor’s attitude in a positive, challengeable, motivative and self-directed manner. It means that individual students attitude was an important factor in successful tutoring. Weve found various possibilities in improving engineering education and developing strategic alternatives at the same time, which include an introductions of various tutoring subjects, an elaborate grouping of participants (tutor/tutee) and teaching basic communication skills between tutoring members, and etc.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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