Lead tutors, professionals within the community, play a crucial role in the Writing and Math Centers, providing expert assistance to students. Peer Tutors, currently enrolled students who have excelled in their subjects with an A or B+, are well-equipped to confidently assist students in various subject areas. The goal of Lead and Peer Tutors is to help build confidence with the student learners and equip them with learning strategies that will enable them to complete a class assignment, test, mid or final exams. They are able to accomplish these goals by one-on-one or group setting depending on the number of students needing assistance.
Lead and Peer Tutors are housed in the Math and Writing Centers on both East and West Campus Monday-Friday. In an effort to increase our visibility tutors are available on Sunday evening from 7:00 pm -9:00 pm in Hall 5 of the Residence Hall for our weekly “Sunday Night Scholar Session”. This is another service provided to our students to help them become successful in their courses. The student engagement has been limited but we will continue until the end of the semester.
The key performance indicators used to assess the success of the Peer Tutors include student usage of the services. There has been an increase in student usage from 2022 through 2023. Additionally, another indicator of performance is that students utilizing these services regularly visit the Centers for support.
Moving forward, I propose revising the KPIs to include students' midterm and final grades utilizing Lead and Peer Tutors. This approach would demonstrate the direct impact of the services provided to students. Additionally, we will focus the Key Performance Indicators specifically on students who actively use these services.
We have added various workshop in Math and English to help aid students in their learning. The workshops are offered at different time and on both campuses. The workshops are entitled AI in the Classroom, How to add Fractions, Time Management and Starting Strong to name a few.
A challenge that may affect our ability to do this activity is the pool of Academic Peer and Lead Tutors. While every effort is made to increase the awareness of the program and services, human capital is an issue. Our services may not be able to accommodate the large influx of students.
We are able to provide these services due to the funding of a grant. When the grant is exhausted, we will need to find additional resources.
