Thursday, Oct. 17, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
9
Tutors are turned to for aid
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
After midterms, in the sixth or seventh week of class, the panic sets in: students begin wondering whether the big "F" will show up on their report cards.
Many students handle the anxiety by finding or hiring a tutor. Tutors are available to anyone who needs one, and in many different places. Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, said last week.
In a resource book, the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall, lists about 50 tutors in math, biology, English, sciences, history and foreign languages.
"We don't give credentials," Zimmer said. "We make that clear to the students. We just list the tutors. It is up to the students to check the tutors out, from checking with people who have had the tutor and checking transcripts."
The average price listed in the resource book for a tutor is $5 or $6 an hour, but it ranges from $3 to a high of $12, depending on the level of the course the person is tutoring, she said.
The assistance center also provides workshops on academics.
writing, notetaking, exam preparation,
time management and speed reading,
usually offered at the beginning
of the semester.
"The best advice is to get started right," she said. "The faster they develop good study habits for the loads, the better off they will be."
Students often hire tutors because they don't have enough background information in an area or because they are behind in their classes, Zimmer said.
"Some students are in trouble because they don't study as hard in the beginning, so they start developing poor study habits." she said. "Their skills are, the more material you can cover without losing control."
Zimmer said most students did not have a realistic assessment of a tutor.
"Too often, students depend on the tutor to teach them everything," she said. "Study is most effective when you review and reread."
Stacey Bien, Topeka freshman, said she got a tutor for CHEM 184. Fundamentals of Chemistry I, this semester because she thought it was important to get extra help outside class and understand things friends and other people could not help with.
"The first day I went to a session we went through a chapter and I understood it perfectly," she said.
Zimmer advised that students to talk to their instructors and advisers before finding a tutor. Instructors can offer students guidelines on what to study and the weaknesses the student can work on.
Gene Alloway, Parsons senior, tutors Western Civilization about 10 hours a week at Supportive Educational Services, which provides free tutoring to any KU student. The services are located at the Support Educational Services Building.
Alloway said the students he tutored were intelligent and wanted to improve their grades, but sometimes he would tutor students who wanted to be "spoon-fed" information.
"You have to get them to think for themselves, and that is what studying comes down to," he said. "You have to push the material onto them and get them to ask specific questions, which makes my job easier."
Tutors for educational services are upper class or graduate students who demonstrate a high level of competence in a certain area and have a 3.0 grade point average in that area.
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