Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs: Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff, and Students

By Tania S. Smith

Whether or not a college currently offers a Supplemental Instruction program, uses peer leaders in First-year Learning Community, or assigns Peer Tutors to courses, Undergraduate Peer MentoringPrograms will provide educators with concepts, examples, and findings useful for program development, innovation and enhancement. Contributors describe an international and interdisciplinary set of programs from the perspectives of program administrators, instructors, students and teaching assistants, while the editor reviews four decades of research, incorporating examples into theory and practice sections.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739179322
• ISBN13: 9780739179321
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: All ages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher