Effectiveness
While ongoing debate and research on this topic continues, several common threads have evolved and opinions on the effectiveness of this approach include:
- Effective tutors for self-directed learning are those who only make appropriate interruptions.
- Effective tutors need content expertise coupled with facilitation training.
- The tutor's challenge is to avoid dispensing facts.
- The effective tutor needs to be empathetic to student needs and capable of motivation.
Given these determinants, one dares to ask if the issue is actually content expertise versus process expertise or rather what is the minimum requirement of each component which would produce the most effective tutor?
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