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A Case Study of Peer Tutoring Implementation at University: Investigating the Students' Difficulties That Were Faced with the Method and the Tutors' Difficulties in Applying It
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Moumoulidou, Maria; Karadimitriou, Kostas; Pliogou, Vassiliki – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
Peer tutoring has been implemented for two academic years (2017-18 and 2018-19) to a course and the internship of a postgraduate program of the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood of the Democritus University of Thrace. Until now fourteen students (eight students and six tutors) have been involved to the method. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Tutors, Program Implementation
Academic Probation: An Empirical Study of Private University Students
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Ahmed, Jashim Uddin; Chowdhury, Md. Humayun Kabir; Rahman, Sheehan; Talukder, A. K. M. Mominul Haque – Research in Education, 2014
This study examines the factors contributing to academic probation in university settings and highlights the problems that students encounter in higher education institutions in Bangladesh. The study focused on students facing academic probation on two private universities in Bangladesh and analyzed students' response with respect to nine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Probation, Higher Education, Universities
Why Algerian Students Struggle to Achieve in English Literature: An Appraisal of Possible Root Causes
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Bouazid, Tayeb; Le Roux, Cheryl S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This article examines the challenges experienced by Arabic-speaking students and lecturers at meeting the proposed learning outcomes in English Literature (EL) at a residential university in Algeria. An overview of the history of foreign languages (French and English) in the curricula in Algerian schools and tertiary education institutions has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Literature, Achievement Need, Etiology
Help to Move on--but to What? Young People with Learning Difficulties Moving on from Out-of-Area Residential Schools or Colleges
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Heslop, Pauline; Abbott, David – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
This article describes research undertaken between 2004 and 2006 about the issues faced by 15 young people with a wide range of learning difficulties in out-of-area residential schools and colleges at transition. The process of transition planning was hampered by the distance between the school/college and the "home authority" of the young person;…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Transitional Programs, Residential Schools, Young Adults