Peer-assisted Learning

by Topping

Book Overview

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves. It encompasses peer tutoring, peer modeling, peer education, peer counseling, peer monitoring, and peer assessment, which are differentiated from other more general "co-operative learning" methods. PAL is not diluted or surrogate "teaching"; it complements and supplements (but never replaces) professional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805825029
• ISBN13: 9780805825022
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 8.6"