Blog Post #7

The secondary source I found is a scholarly article by Keith Topping at the University of Dundee. In this article, it gives information about how peer tutoring affects students within a college or university environment. This study was published in 1998 but still holds truth to how the peer-tutoring environment works today. It gives a definition of what Topping calls “peer assessment” which is inevitably the same as peer tutoring. Not only does this give description on how it helps and benefits grades, but also gives evidence of how these peer tutoring or peer assessment opportunities give students and their peers social and communication skills that can be used for the rest of their lives outside of the classroom.

Topping, Keith. “Peer Assessment between Students in Colleges and Universities.” Review of Educational Research: 28.3. (1998). 249-276. Web. 4 November 2013.