Tutorial services for students at Bilkent University an evaluation after five years

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dc.contributor.authorÇelik, B. Keyiken_US
dc.contributor.authorÖzdemir, B. Usluen_US
dc.contributor.authorVerhoeven, John Men_US
dc.coverage.spatialAalborg, Denmarken_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T11:39:15Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T11:39:15Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Computer Engineeringen_US
dc.departmentComputer Technology and Information Systemsen_US
dc.descriptionDate of Conference: 36th SEFI Annual Conference 2008en_US
dc.descriptionConference name: 2 Jul 2008 -5 Jul 2008en_US
dc.description.abstractTo realize our mission as academic coordinators for engineering students at Bilkent University, we facilitate in different ways tutorial services. These focus on the first year courses for physics, mathematics and computer science, which are courses that turn out to be difficult, as students' comments and grades often show. Most tutorial services are realized in cooperation with the Departments. Senior undergraduate students or graduate students are hired to work as laboratory assistants or as homework graders, or to offer recitation classes. During these classes questions are answered, difficult issues are explained, while many exercises are done to gain the necessary routine for applying the theory. Such classes can form together with theory classes and laboratory sessions a consistent unity of different working forms. Besides these services, which are scheduled regularly and for which participation often is included in the grading, we coordinate tutorials on demand, for students asking for them. Another idea behind the tutorial services is that they give the possibility for advanced students to practice their teaching and communication skills. We organize application procedures, hire the students accepted for the job, follow their work with duty reports to be submitted by them, try to coach them in different ways. By participating in workshops, where special attention is given to strategies for active learning, tutors can work for a teaching certificate. After they finished their job satisfactorily, tutors may ask for a 'thank you letter', as a useful academic reference. Everything considered, although the infrastructure for the tutorial services is quite challenging, they form a useful tool for our mission as student coordinators.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/26909
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSense Publishersen_US
dc.source.titleProceedings of 36th European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI Conference on Quality Assessment, Employability and Innovationen_US
dc.subjectJob for advanced studentsen_US
dc.subjectArtificial intelligenceen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectEngineering educationen_US
dc.subjectGradingen_US
dc.subjectTeachingen_US
dc.subjectActive Learningen_US
dc.subjectApplication proceduresen_US
dc.subjectCommunication skillsen_US
dc.subjectFreshmenen_US
dc.subjectGraduate studentsen_US
dc.subjectLaboratory sessionsen_US
dc.subjectTutorial servicesen_US
dc.subjectUndergraduate studentsen_US
dc.titleTutorial services for students at Bilkent University an evaluation after five yearsen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
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