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

Learn through new research on college peer study groups and interviews with study group leaders and their program managers. David Arendale serves as the host. Some episodes are based on a publication or an annotated bibliography. Review the episode description on the podcast website to download the publications. I maintain an annotated bibliography of publications about nine major peer learning models. It now exceeds 2,000 publications. 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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Interview: Sam, Student Leader, MN State U Mankato

Apr 28, 2021

S04-E13 This episode introduces us to Sam who is a student study group leader. She is studying physics and astronomy. Her career aspiration is to become a physics professor and researcher. Her hobbies include running, basketball, poetry, and jamming to music. I was very interested in how she broke down the various...

Interview: Paige, Student Leader, MN State U Mankato

Apr 26, 2021

S04-E12 This episode introduces us to Paige who is a student study group leader. Her major is marketing with a minor in graphic design. Her career aspiration is business/event design, marketing manager, or marketing analyst. Her hobbies include reading, hiking, and art. Paige is a study leader for an economics course....

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...