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    Increasing Retention in Online Courses Through Peer Mentoring

Assessment

Assessing the program

  • Success of the program requires monitoring
  • How do we measure success?
    • Course completion rates
    • Student performance – as in grades
    • Student satisfaction
    • Faculty satisfaction
    • Learning effectiveness
  • Assessments should be shared with mentors
  • Assessments should feed back into class development cycle

Assessing the online peer mentor

Student-student interaction

  • The interaction with other students enhances my learning.
  • The class discussions progressed adequately each week.
  • The class discussions added to my overall understanding of the course content.
  • The pace of the class allowed for individual and group exploration of topics.
  • A spirit of student-to-student collaboration in achieving the educational outcomes of the course was acheived via the class discussions.

Faculty-mentor interaction

  • What criteria best fit your class?

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