Introduction; 1. What is peer tutoring? 2. Beneficial effects: why teachers use peer tutoring; 3. Theoretical frameworks for peer tutoring; 4. How theory can inform practice; 5. Planning and promoting peer tutoring; 6. Helping students become peer tutors; 7. Evaluation of peer tutoring schemes; 8. Problems associated with peer tutoring; 9. Technology-supported collaborative learning; 10. Benefiting from hindsight: practitioners reflect on peer tutoring; 11. Reflections and prospects
Nancy Falchikov is an Education consultant at Napier University, Edinburgh. She has worked as a teacher in Higher Education for many years, and has been researching ways of improving learning and teaching since the mid 1980s.
'The author has striven to make the text accessible to all members
of the expected readership. Practical examples are plentiful, and
helpful summaries are provided at the end of many chapters ... Her
personal style shines through this book. While addressing abstract
issues of theoretical underpinnings and evidential basis, she also
manages to be personal in tone and practcical in orienatation,
thereby potentially encouraging and inspiring to teachers in HE at
all stages of development in their craft ... There is a great deal
of useful material of many types in this book. The author has
succeeded in the difficult task of combining theory, research and
practice into a toolkit for onward development in teaching and
learning which should prove invaluable to all of the target
audience.' - Keith Topping, Educational Research
'The author has striven to make the text accessible to all members
of the expected readership. Practical examples are plentiful, and
helpful summaries are provided at the end of many chapters ... Her
personal style shines through this book. While addressing abstract
issues of theoretical underpinnings and evidential basis, she also
manages to be personal in tone and practcical in orienatation,
thereby potentially encouraging and inspiring to teachers in HE at
all stages of development in their craft ... There is a great deal
of useful material of many types in this book. The author has
succeeded in the difficult task of combining theory, research and
practice into a toolkit for onward development in teaching and
learning which should prove invaluable to all of the target
audience.' - Keith Topping, Educational Research
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