Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

Implementing Peer tutoring in an online course Colin Neill, Joanna DeFranco, Amanda Neill The Pennsylvania State UniversityPrevious research in a large scale experiment provided no evidence that working on a successfuland effective team had a positive effect on individual student performance. Thus, to facilitateindividual learning, we implemented peer tutoring while students worked on an effective team inan online graduate software engineering course. This paper presents an online peer tutoringdesign. The results of a constant comparative qualitative analysis will be presented in order toprovide insight into the success of this peer tutoring implementation.I