Hello CER colleagues!
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following symposium about research on peer leaders as the abstract deadline is coming soon (February 20th, 2018). Abstracts can be submitted online at http://bcce2018.org
Symposium Description: This symposium presents the opportunity to expand a large and still growing field of CER research in peer led instructional methods. Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), Peer-Led Guided Inquiry (PLGI), and other methods have highlighted the usefulness of instruction facilitated by near peer mentors. Studies continue to demonstrate the benefits of both participating in peer-led programs as well as serving as a peer leader in a program such as these. This symposium will focus specifically on the experience of being a peer leader. Manuscripts in this symposium will focus on the impact of instructional methods that include a peer-led strategy such as those mentioned above and their subsequent impacts on peer leaders. This series of presentations will inform the CER community on the status of this line of research as well as provide feedback to presenters from experts in the field as to how to move forward in this area. Submissions for this symposium will be considered based upon their relation to the previous work done in peer-led methods as well as novelty of implementations (different context, changes in details of the intervention, different assessment procedures, etc.).
Thanks,
Tony Chase – chaseam@iupui.edu
STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI)
IUPUI