Teachers asserted that the CT was effective for stimulating reciprocal tutoring among students, and students were enthusiastic about using the CT as an educational tool.
In summary, an analysis of our findings shows that although an introductory session is required, the MEEP is a new evaluation method that encourages student self-reflection, tracks student progress in skill acquisition and stimulates student-tutor interaction with a high level of acceptance by tutors and students.
Therefore we looked for a more parsimonious model (model 3, see Figure 3) without the factor "(did the tutor stimulate) collaborative learning" and without the dependent variable "achievement".
Combined with the fact that self-directed learning directly impacts on group functioning, and indirectly by the strong effect of the perceived case quality on the group functioning, those results indicate that it is important for the tutor to stimulate self-directed learning in students.
Developing a broad range of strategies to encourage optimal group functioning and to stimulate student learning should therefore be a major focus of tutor preparation.
These findings suggest that changes in extracellular DA levels can be stimulated similarly by very different social contexts (courtship and interaction with tutor), and influenced potently by dopaminergic and noradrenergic drugs.
Tutors were stimulated by the students' many questions and their positive feedback, as illustrated by this tutor: The students' enthusiasm and the chance to influence future physicians, to do something good for those that form them into good (physicians)...was a pleasure.
Therefore, the development of a broad range of strategies, including coaching, to stimulate student learning and encourage optimal group functioning should be a major focus of tutor recruitment and training.
In problem-based learning, a tutor, the quality of the problems and group functioning play a central role in stimulating student learning.
In general tutors play an important role in ensuring that the group is functioning effectively, e.g., by stimulating quiet students to speak up.
