Peer-assisted learning is an instructional approach in which students teach, tutor or coach one another under a teacher's structure and supervision, rather than the teacher being the sole source of instruction, taking forms such as cross-age peer tutoring, reciprocal peer tutoring between same-age partners, and structured peer-response groups for writing. Research reviews consistently find measurable benefit for the student doing the tutoring as well as the one being tutored, since explaining material to a peer requires reorganizing and testing one's own understanding of it.
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Mentees benefit from increased personalized attention in a one-on-one setting and can work at their own pace.
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Associated With: Lev Vygotsky, Peer learning pageQuote, Associated With: Lev Vygotsky, Peer learning page
Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, who developed the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development, was another proponent of constructivist learning: his book, Thought and Language, provides evidence that students learn better through collaborative, meaningful problem-solving activities than through solo exercises
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