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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Peer-led."”.
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The power of children's dialogue: Taiwanese students' peer-led literature discussion
… study built on previous research in the area of peer-led literature discussion. Even though there are numerous studies investigating this type of literacy activity, little is known about Taiwanese elementary students’ participation in peer-led literature discussion. This study explored a group of …
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The Effectiveness of Peer-Led Team Learning Workshops: An Action Research Approach
… terms of scientific development. This trend has led researchers to study why students abandon scientific majors in favor of pursuing nonscientific degrees and what can be done to attract students to and retain them in scientific fields of study. This thesis project focuses specifically on …
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The benefits of peer-led interventions in Higher Education: lessons from practice
There are a growing number of peer-led support interventions in Higher Education (Andrews & Clark, 2011). This paper seeks to outline the different types of intervention and the benefits of such interventions. It first seeks to establish definitions that will be used throughout the review such as …
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Peer Led Team Learning in Introductory Biology: Effects on Critical Thinking Skills
… study evaluated the potential effects of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) instructional model on undergraduate, biology peer leaders' critical thinking skills. This investigation also explored peer leaders' perceptions of their critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test …
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The effects of prompts-based argumentation scaffolds on peer-led interactive argumentation
… in improvement of students' argumentation in a peer-led argumentation context. The study also examined the effects of PAS on students' reasoning performance and their feelings of group community. Thirty-two participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a) no prompts, b) …
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Peer-Led Team Learning as an Instructional Strategy for Secondary School Science
… impact of an instructional learning strategy, peer-led team learning (PLTL), on secondary school students' conceptual understanding of biology concepts related to the topic of evolution. Using a mixed methods approach, data were gathered quantitatively through pre/posttesting using a repeated …
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Examining the Experiences of Athletes in Adult-led and Peer-led Youth Sport
Participation in a combination of adult-led and peer-led activities appears to lead to favourable outcomes in sport (Côté, Erickson, & Abernethy, 2013). However, very little is known regarding the potential differences in how youth experience these distinct activities. Thus, the purpose of this …
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Student Engagement Within Peer-led Literature Circles: Exploring the Thought Styles of Adolescents
… research study of student engagement within peer-led literature circles. Collaborating with 10 seventh grade students in my writing and literature classroom who asked to read 1984 in literature circles, I explored how students engage with each and with literature within peer-led discussion …
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Recipient Experiences of a Peer-Led Abstinence Programme at the University of the Western Cape.
… the experiences of recipients of the HIV/AIDS peer education abstinence programme at the University of the Western Cape (UWC)
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How Participation in a Peer-Led Writing Center Impacts Struggling Students’ Self-Efficacy and Motivation
… based on the writing center model of peer tutoring. Students were observed in seven writing sessions which took place at multiple stages of the writing process and with informational, narrative, and analytical writing assignments. Through interview and observation, the researcher …
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Teacher-led VS. Peer-led: Discovering a Format for Engaging Literature Discussion In a Seventh Grade Classroom
… in literature class when discussions were peer-led or when discussions were teacher-led. Observations, lasting two weeks, were conducted of two seventh grade classes, a first period and third period class. The teacher led the literature discussion during the first week and students led the …
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Beyond Participation: The therapeutic ‘self-photograph’ and participatory photography in peer-led mental health design and evaluation
… five study programmes, I developed participant-led evaluation methods which draw on an emerging photographic practice evolving in therapeutic communities. I define this practice as ‘self-photography’ and ‘shared self-photography’ which reflects the way in which people therapeutically engage with …
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Impact and reach of a peer-led health education intervention utilizing harm reduction strategies in an incarcerated population
… Health is Community Health: The New Mexico Peer Education Project (NMPEP) was developed by Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) to address the epidemic of Hepatitis C transmission in the New Mexico state prison system. NMPEP is a low-cost, peer-led health education …
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‘In the same boat, helping each other’: a grounded theory of growth and emancipation in peer-led hearing voices groups
… this project, I present a grounded theory of how peer-led Hearing Voices Network Groups (HVNGs) impact people who attend them. By conducting intensive interviews and attending groups as an observer, I developed a theory of the outcomes and processes of change that people experience in peer-led …
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Pain in HIV/AIDS : characteristics, contributing factors and the effects of a six-week peer-led exercise and education intervention.
The central premise of this thesis was that pain is a problem in persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), that this pain is biopsychosocial in nature, and as such may have different characteristics in different sub-groups. It was also hypothesised that pain in PLWHA can be effectively managed using a …
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Peer-Led Team Learning: The Effect of Peer Leader and Student Interactions on Student Learning Gains and Course Achievement in Introductory Biology
<p>This study sought to connect the literature on Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) to the work on student-teacher interactions as well as STEM role models. Student and peer leader interactions were explored to determine the effect of these interactions on student learning outcomes. Students and their …
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A COMPARISON OF FIRST-SEMESTER ORGANIC CHEMISTRY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES AND MASTERY OF CURVED-ARROW FORMALISM IN FACE-TO-FACE AND CYBER PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING
The cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL) workshops are a synchronous online adaptation of the educational intervention PLTL, in which students, under the guidance of undergraduate peer facilitators, collaboratively solve problems in small groups. The purpose of this parallel convergent mixed …
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A comparison of first-semester organic chemistry students' experiences and mastery of curved-arrow formalism in face-to-face and cyber peer-led team learning
The cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL) workshops are a synchronous online adaptation of the educational intervention PLTL, in which students, under the guidance of undergraduate peer facilitators, collaboratively solve problems in small groups. The purpose of this parallel convergent mixed …
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Efficacy of a peer-led exercise and education programme combined with a therapeutic relationship to manage pain in rural amaXhosa women living with HIV/AIDS compared to a therapeutic relationship alone
Background: Pain is the one of the most prevalent symptoms in people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Disease Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and is largely undermanaged. In urban amaXhosa women living with HIV/AIDS (LWHA), the 'Positive Living' (PL) programme has been identified as an …
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