Student Assisted Teaching

This innovative handbook provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive.

Each of the 31 models included in this volume is supported by practical details and focuses on four main aspects of a specific peer-assisted learning environment: implementation, evidence of effectiveness and learning benefits, analysis of time and cost expenditures, and suggestions for replication. Contents include discussions of working with undergraduate partners in several areas:

• Programs for first-year students
• Difficult courses
• Special groups
• Courses and programs for all students
• Faculty development

The chapters present a range of approaches, applications, disciplines, institutions, and contexts, and demonstrate that student-faculty partnerships can be adapted to meet diverse needs in a variety of situations. Extensive appendices aid implementation by providing concrete examples of hiring documents, training syllabi, teaching materials, and evaluation methods.

JUDITH E. MILLER is Director of Educational development, Technology, and Assessment, and Professor of Biology and Biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has published and presented extensively in the areas of cooperative learning and educational productivity. She received the Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher award from the Society for College Science teachers and Kendall-Hunt Publishers in 1997.

JAMES E. GROCCIA is Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Graduate faculty in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His teaching and research interests, center on student-assisted learning, college teaching, educational innovation and productivity, and cross-cultural psychology.

MARILYN S. MILLER is Assistant Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has presented nationally on issues of communication across linguistic and cultural lines, and the role of inactive learning in compensating for linguistic difficulties of foreign instructors and students.