The phrase "as peer tutor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is acting in the capacity of a peer tutor, typically in an educational context.
Example: "I have been helping my classmates with their studies as peer tutor, providing guidance and support in various subjects."
Alternatives: "in the role of a peer tutor" or "as a student tutor".
The content validity of the German version was tested by two Kinaesthetics trainers and seven nurses who were in training as peer tutors.
14 4th – 5th year medical students (8 male, 6 female; mean age: 24.4 ± 0.5 years) were recruited as peer tutors from a remarkably large number of voluntary applicants.
The peer tutors were concurrently enrolled in a course covering practical and theoretical aspects of STEM education to help prepare them both for their roles as peer tutors and their potential futures as STEM educators.
Furthermore, it has been shown that medical students acting as peer tutors report a willingness to undertake further teacher training and to make teaching a major part of their professional practice [ 26].
An increasingly prevalent didactic approach in skills lab teaching is peer-assisted learning (PAL), which implies the assignment of either advanced medical students as peer tutors for lower-level fellow students (cross-year teaching) or tutors teaching same-year fellow students (same-year PAL) [ 5].
Meeting one-on-one with or serving as a peer tutor in mathematics, the natural sciences or a foreign language sharpens understanding for both the tutee and the tutor, and allows for a level of inquiry often shied away from in the classroom.
However, Wadoodi & Crosby [ 35] suggest that participation as a peer tutor should be voluntary, and should not exclude potential volunteers on the basis of academic performance.
Although results from this review suggest that there are many perceived learning benefits for student tutors participating in PAL activities, no substantial evidence was found to conclude that participation as a peer tutor improves one's own examination performance.
However, there were mixed results regarding the accuracy of peer assessment and feedback, and no substantial evidence to conclude that participation as a peer tutor improves one's own examination performance.
Further, there is evidence to suggest that the experience of participating as a peer tutor is more likely to benefit poor performing students and therefore they should not be excluded [ 36].
