The Rowman & Littlefield Guide for Peer Tutors
The Rowman & Littlefield Guide for Peer Tutors provides an introduction for tutors to the scholarship of teaching and learning as it pertains to their work engaging students in learning centers, writing centers, Supplemental Instruction programs, and other sites for peer-led learning in higher education. Grounded in current findings from cognitive science, the Guide provides peer tutors with research- based principles to drive the choices that they make in sessions with learners.
Supports peer educators across a wide variety of academic support programs, including learning centers, writing centers, Supplemental Instruction programs, TRIO programs, language learning-centers, mathematics & quantitative literacy programs, classroom-based programs, and other sites for peer-led learning in higher education
Provides support for peer tutors as they enter, and as they grow within, the field of peer-led learning
Firmly connects theory to practice, providing peer tutors with a clear framework for making decisions in working with learners
Supports the CRLA International Tutor Training Program Certification curriculum
The Rowman & Littlefield Guide to Learning Center Administration: Leading Peer Tutoring Programs in Higher Education
With Dr. Michelle Steiner, Marymount University.
The Rowman & Littlefield Guide to Learning Center Administration is a thorough, concise resource for leaders of higher education peer tutoring programs, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects of providing peer tutors with the conditions to succeed. The Guide supports learning center administrators in articulating the value of the programs they oversee, and delivering impactful, effective services for the campuses they serve.
Each chapter ends in a checklist that can be used as a guide for program assessment.
Offers insight on navigating scenarios frequently encountered by learning center administrators, such as requests from faculty for information on student utilization or opportunities to interface with learning management systems.
Lays out In-depth consideration of theoretical considerations driving choices such as center layout, tutor training, and program development.
Incorporates empirical research from multiple areas of higher education scholarship.
Relevant for administrators of a wide variety of peer tutoring programs (learning centers, writing centers, Supplemental Instruction, TRiO programs, language learning centers, mathematics & quantitative literacy centers, and others).
Provides detailed, step-by-step guides guidance on common tasks in learning center administration such as hiring tutors, engaging in an annual assessment cycle, and advertising center services.
Coming in 2025: The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peer Tutoring
Edited with Dr. Russ Hodges, Texas State University, & Dr. Michelle Steiner, Marymount University.
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peer Tutoring defines the emerging academic field of peer tutoring. Addressing the multiple audiences of undergraduate tutors in advanced trainings, graduate students immersing themselves in the research of learning centers, professionals seeking to understand the history and current state of the field, and faculty researchers in the fields of education, psychology, communication, and composition, the book gathers in one volume the voices that define the current state of the field. In doing so, it brings authors and ideas from previously discrete areas of study into conversation with one another, and advances the case for a single, shared scholarship of peer tutoring that spans the numerous discrete disciplines, professional communities, and continents in which it is currently siloed.