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- Title
PEER-ASSISTED LEARNING: PERSPECTIVES OF A FORMER STUDENT TUTOR.
- Authors
CASTELYN, DONOVAN
- Abstract
Peer-assisted learning (PAL) facilitates the reciprocal development of knowledge and skill between students of similar social groupings by disrupting the traditional studentteacher relationship. As an educational strategy, PAL strikes at the core of student collaboration, engagement and satisfaction. Given the ever-expanding digital landscape and push towards online course delivery, PAL's student-centred approach bridges gaps in course content delivery where conventional teaching practices would prove ineffective. PAL programmes are flexible and adaptable to change, thus providing an attractive accompaniment to orthodox teaching methods. This paper reflects on the author's experience as a PAL participant and facilitator, then draws on key perspectives gained through these experiences and compares them with the prevailing literature on this topic. This paper then advocates for the use of student tutors as additional resources to meet the needs of adapting student cohorts and to operate alongside traditional teaching practices. This paper concludes by recommending to educators, particularly those in higher education in the discipline of taxation, an implementation strategy to adopt and utilise PAL more effectively in the classroom and beyond.
- Subjects
LEARNING ability; SOCIAL groups; ONLINE education
- Publication
Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association, 2018, Vol 13, Issue 1, p68
- ISSN
1832-911X
- Publication type
Article