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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(Bonus) Organic Chemistry Overview

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Nov 29, 2021

(Bonus) Organic chemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies the structure, properties and reactions of organic compounds, which contain carbon in covalent bonding. Study of structure determines their structural formula. Study of properties includes physical and chemical properties, and evaluation of chemical...

Interview, Louisa, Study Leader, Florida Int. Univ.

Nov 29, 2021

S04-E25 We have a conversation with Louisa who is a student study group leader at Florida International University. While she provides academic support for a number of courses, I asked her to focus on one course and why it is challenging for first-year students. Louisa provided insight to why the Organic Course...

(Bonus) Overview of Biology

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Nov 27, 2021

(Bonus) Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary information encoded in genes, which can be transmitted to future...

Interview, Emily, Study Leader, Florida Int. Univ.

Nov 27, 2021

S04-E24 We have a conversation with Emily who is a student study group leader at Florida International University. This is part three of a four-part series from FIU.

We begin our conversation with Emily when she describes her vocational path to becoming a school teacher as a result of her experiences as a tutor, small...

(Bonus) Overview of Physics

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Nov 24, 2021

(Bonus) Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.