PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING: EVALUATION, DISSEMINATION, AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A COLLEGE LEVEL INITIATIVE by Leo Gafney, Pratibha Varma-Nelson ( 9781402061851 )

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PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING: EVALUATION, DISSEMINATION, AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A COLLEGE LEVEL INITIATIVE

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ISBN 10:

1402061854

ISBN 13:

9781402061851

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC.

Pub. date:

1 July, 2008

Series:

Innovations in Science Education and Technology 16

Pages:

156

Description:

This book is a real-world study of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), a method in which undergraduates work together, under the guidance of a peer leader, in course-connected workshops. The text explains how the method evolved into a teaching/learning model.

Synopsis:

There seems to be no end to the flood of conferences, workshops, panel discussions, reports and research studies calling for change in the introductory science courses in our colleges and universities. But, there comes a time to move from criticism to action. In 1993, the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation called for proposals for systemic initiatives to change the way int- ductory chemistry is taught. One of the five awards was to design, develop and implement the peer-led Workshop, a new structure to help students learn science. This book is a study of 15 years of work by the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) project, a national consortium of faculty, learning specialists and students. The authors have been in the thick of the action as project evaluator (Gafney) and co-principle investigator (Varma-Nelson). Readers of this book will find a story of successful change in educational practice, a story that continues today as new institutions, faculty, and disciplines adopt the PLTL model. They will learn the model in theory and in practice and the supporting data that encourage others to adopt and adapt PLTL to new sit- tions. Although the project has long since lost count of the number of implem- tations of the model, conservative estimates are that more than 100 community and four year colleges and a range of universities have adopted the PLTL model to advance student learning for more than 20,000 students in a variety of STEM disciplines.

Illustrations:

XII, 156 p.

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Imprint:

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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Returnable

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