Peer tutoring

Overview

Influence: Peer tutoring
Domain: Student Learning Strategies
Sub-Domain: Student perspectives in learning
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
Influence Definition: Peer tutoring is a teaching strategy that uses students as tutors. The student pairs might work on academic, social, behavioral, functional, or even social skills. There are many different ways to pair students, such as by ability level, skills mastered, or age. Many studies look at the effects on both the tutor and tutee.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 16
Number of studies: 599
Number of students: 17,397
Number of effects: 1,632
Weighted mean effect size: 0.55
Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Dissertation	Phillips	Learning the conservation concept: A meta-analysis	1983	Tutorial training of conservation	45	NA	531	1.01
School Psychology Review	Mathes & Fuchs	The efficacy of peer tutoring in reading for students with mild disabilities: A best-evidence synthesis.	1994	Peer tutoring in reading	11	NA	74	0.36
Book	Elbaum, Vaughn, Hughes, Moody, & Schumm	How reading outcomes of students with disabilities are related to instructional grouping formats: A meta-analytic review	2000	Peer tutoring in reading	32	1,248	216	0.41
School Psychology Review	Bowman-Perrott, Davis, Vannest, Williams, Greenword, & Parker	Academic benefits of peer tutoring: A meta-analytic review of single-case research	2013	Peer tutoring	26	938	195	1.17
Journal of Educational Psychology	Rohrbeck, Ginsburg-Block, Fantuzzo, & Miller	Peer-assisted learning interventions with elementary school students: A meta-analytic review	2003	Peer assisted learning in elementary students	90	NA	90	0.59
Journal of Educational Psychology	Ginsburg-Block, Rohrbeck & Fantuzzo	A meta-analytic review of social, self-concept, and behavioral outcomes of peer-assisted learning	2006	Peer-assisted learning	28	NA	26	0.35
International Journal of Educational Research	Shenderovich, Thurston, & Miller	Cross-age tutoring in kindergarten and elementary school settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2016	Cross age tutoring	15	NA	15	0.19
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education	Alegre-Ansuategui, Moliner, Lorenzo, & Maroto	Peer tutoring and academic achievement in mathematics: a meta-analysis.	2018	Peer tutoring	50	7,043	50	0.33
International Journal of Educational Research	Zeneli, Thurston, & Roseth	The influence of experimental design on the magnitude of the effect size-peer tutoring for elementary, middle and high school settings: A meta-analysis	2016	Peer tutoring	49	NA	182	0.72
Journal of Educational Psychology	Leung	Preliminary empirical model of crucial determinants of best practice for peer tutoring on academic achievement.	2015	Peer tutoring	72	6,611	72	0.39
Dissertation	Burton	Cross-Age Peer Mentoring: A Meta-Analysis	2020	Cross-age peer mentors	6	685	6	0.45
Journal of Peer Learning	Zha, Estes, & Xu	A Meta-Analysis on the Effect of Duration, Task, and Training in Peer-Led Learning.	2019	Peer led learning	28	NA	28	0.36
Journal of Korean Mathematics Education	Jo, Choi, & Kim	Peer teaching through meta-analysis: Effect on academic achievement in mathematics and the area of definition.	2021	Peer teaching	61	NA	61	0.52
Medical teacher	Rees, Quinn, Davies, & Fotheringham	How does peer teaching compare to faculty teaching? A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2016	Peer vs faculty teaching	10	NA	10	0.07
Pedagogies: An International Journal	Öz	Effects of peer instruction on academic achievement: a meta-analysis.	2023	Peer instruction	43	NA	43	0.92
Nurse Education Today	Zhang, Liao, Goh, Wu, & Yoong	Effectiveness of peer teaching in health professions education: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2022	Peer teaching on nurses	33	872	33	0.10
TOTAL/AVERAGE						599	17,397	1,632	0.50