Friday, October 25, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Unique tutoring program set up
A war on "intellectual property" is being conducted in a Biology I class at KU this semester.
Eugene Nelson, assistant professor of biology and entomology, offers his better students the chance to share their knowledge of biology through a tutoring program.
After the first exam, Nelson gets the telephone numbers of the volunteers who scored high on the exam. When those that scored low come to him he refers them to the higher scoring students for tutoring.
"This 'buddy system' has worked remarkably well," Nelson said. "It gives the best students, those that are often bored with the lectures, a chance for active participation in the course and helps lower scoring students raise their grade and learn more biology," he added.
Nelson feels this system is fairer to his students, because some haven't had the background to understand the course. "This system places the burden of learning with the student, not me. They can't blame me for being unfair because I
In a class of 200, if "four or five are influenced to go into biology, then the class has been extremely successful." Nelson added.
might be a bad lecturer," Nelson said.
The better students receive credit if the person they tutor brings his grade up, Nelson said.
Nelson became interested in his tutoring idea in graduate school, so interested that he changed from research to teaching.
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