Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Groups Podcast: College Group Tutoring and Study Review Groups

The “PALgroups Podcast” is focused on college study review groups. PAL is the name for the study review groups used at the University of Minnesota. We drew upon best practices from international models such as Supplemental Instruction, Peer-led Team Learning, and the Emerging Scholars Program. I served on the team that created the PAL model at the Univ. of Minnesota. Before UMN, I served at the Center for SI at the Univ. of Missouri-KC.

Some episodes share new things I am learning from around the world. Common names for peer learning groups are Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) and Peer Assisted Learning (PAL). Other podcast episodes feature student study group leaders and program coordinators describing session activities that worked well. Those interviews include what they are learning personally and professionally from their experience. Send an email to David Arendale, arendale@umn.edu, if you or your students would like to be interviewed for the podcast. I also maintain an annotated bibliography of publications about seven major peer learning models. It now exceeds 1,600 publication. Click this link to download the bibliography. Training manuals and other PAL resources are available by clicking on this link for the website.

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Please post comments to the individual episodes, post to the iTunes podcast review and rating section, and email to me at arendale@umn.edu You can also check out my other four podcasts and social media channels at www.davidmedia.org Thanks for listening.

Interview: Taylor, Student Leader, MN State U Mankato

Apr 21, 2021

S04-E11 This episode introduces us to Taylor who is a student study group leader. She is studying family and consumer science with an emphasis on dietetics. Taylor mentioned that the anatomy course she supported was challenging due to the complicated vocabulary. That course was actually the first one supported by...

Interview: Osee, Student Leader, MN State U Mankato

Apr 19, 2021

S04-E10 This episode introduces us to Osee who is also a MavPASS student leader. He is an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a wonderful story of how he was identified by his teachers in middle school to help other students with their homework. His work as a MavPASS leader is a natural...

Interview: Faith, Student Leader, MN State U Mankato

Apr 15, 2021

S04-E09 We continue the interview series with the study group manager and the students that lead the study group sessions. The last episode featured Dr. Laura Jacobi, who is a faculty member and the program manager. Now we begin episodes that feature five of their student study group leaders.

In part two of a six-part...

(Bonus) Profile of Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Apr 13, 2021

(Bonus PDF) This extensive profile of Minnesota State University Mankato provides the context for the MavPASS program which operates there. You will find interesting information about the institution as well as some of its well-known graduates.

(Bonus) Photograph of the Spring 2020 MavPASS Leaders

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Apr 13, 2021

(Bonus PDF) This is a photograph of student MavPASS leaders serving during spring 2020. Five of these students are featured in upcoming PAL Group podcast episodes.