As if we need any convincing that peer tutoring benefits all students at Agnes Scott in ways that continue to pay off in the long run, here is some measurable evidence that tutoring makes both tutors and tutees smarter, more academically successful, socially adept, and confident in their intellectual abilities.
There is, write Marta Flores and David Duran, a consensus among researchers that peer tutoring is one of the “most effective instructional practices in the achievement of quality education” because it improves students’ learning of academic competences.1
According to José Arco-Tirado et al., peer-tutoring improves not only students’ GPA and overall academic performance but also it improved their learning strategies and even their social skills.2 Through tutoring, students also develop more positive attitudes towards learning in general and towards their teachers and schools in particular.
Further, students develop a more positive self-image, while nurturing “relationship of trust and mutual enrichment between tutor and tutee.”3 Clearly, then, peer tutoring impacts positively students’ overall academic learning and experience.
The CWS’ emphasis on collaboration and the peer nature of the tutor-tutee relationship is especially valuable, because it creates
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