| Activity name | 6. Cross Year Tutoring |
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| Participants | Durham (Mentor)
LeedsMet (transfer site) |
Aims Covered: 1 |
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| Timescales | October 05 - July 06 |
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| Background | Cross-year
tutoring is used within Durham as a means of Level 3 students
supporting - as project managers - Level 2 students with their
group-work. Durham will provide advice to their collaborators in areas
including: - Managing the student-student interface
- Dealing with problems such as non-contributing managers
- Appropriate assessment techniques including the use of peer and self assessment
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| Activity | Transfer - LeedsMet
The lessons learned will be used to refine the approach and document it for broader release. New Developments - Durham
Durham will investigate an extension to cross-year tutoring - that of
360° mentoring (when participants mentor one another). To achieve this,
the cross-year tutoring approach will be introduced within the taught
Masters programmes tailored for non-computing graduates. This programme
is composed of approximately 75% international students. In this
activity, Level 3 students will project-manage the Masters students;
the Masters students will give advice on areas drawn from their prior
discipline or on software internationalisation.
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| Evaluation | - Requirements of the day-to-day management of the process
- Appropriateness of group support activities and support materials for multi-cultural groups
- Success in minimising conflict when mentor is at lower level of study than the mentee
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| Expected outcomes | - A
joint experience report produced by the two sites highlighting the
transfer potential of the approach within and beyond the domain of
computing.
- An Academy briefing paper describing the concept of 360° mentoring.
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| Risks | Typical risks involve (Mitigations - see [Burd02a]): - Controlling
the student interface between student tutor and tutee i.e. ensuring
tutors do not mislead tutees or tutors complete assessments for tutees
(plagiarism issues)
- Dealing with non-contribution of mentors
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