Learning Strategies
During a tutoring session for an engineering student preparing for an exam on circuit analysis, the tutor encourages the student to review key formulas and problem-solving techniques every few days over the course of a few weeks, rather than cramming all at once. This strategy helps the student retain the material more effectively.
There are 12 of them in this cycle.
What are steps?
What is 5 minutes?
A biology student studies photosynthesis, then switches to cellular respiration, and finally reviews the differences between plant and animal cells—all in one session. This is an example of this strategy.
What is interleaving?
The name of the steps broken up into 3 groups.
What are opening steps, task steps, and closing steps?
A peer leader would let the tutoring hotline know rather than answer back in this situation.
What is when a student reaches out to them directly?
While studying patient care techniques, you create a diagram showing the steps of the nursing process—assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation—alongside notes explaining each step. This illustrates this strategy.
What is dual coding?
The [blank] of tutoring is to help tutees increase their confidence and learn how to learn independently, eventually reducing dependence on tutoring.
What is the goal?
A peer leader would let this person know if they were having response issues from the tutoring hotline.
Who is the program coordinator, Courtney Mansor, or the Interim ASC Director, Christine Huang?
A psychology tutor helps a student understand the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy by asking the student to reflect on how they may have acted more confidently in a class presentation after expecting positive feedback from their professor. This is an example of using this strategy in a tutoring session.
What is using concrete examples?
The two steps that are most commonly missed by tutors in appointments.
What are steps 7 and 8?
A tutor has an online appointment and is having technical difficulties, so they contact this resources.
What is the tutoring hotline?
A physics student learning about Newton’s Third Law explains it by connecting it to the experience of jumping off a small boat and observing how the boat moves backward. This is an example of this strategy.
What is elaboration?
The names of step 7 and step 8 of the tutoring cycle.
What are summary of content and summary of process?
This is the phone number for the tutoring hotline.
What is 313-451-0143?