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The program's mission is to increase student retention and persistence rates in traditionally difficult courses. Modeled after the University of Missouri-Kansas City's nationally recognized SI Program, the Supplemental Instruction tutors (SIs) provide students with highly structured three hours of out-of-class weekly study sessions.
Supplemental Instruction tutors (SIs) attend classes with students, meet with instructors weekly, and design sessions to meet students' learning needs. SI sessions are based on material covered in class and instructors' emphasis on specific concepts. SI sessions focus on processing course content through collaborative learning strategies and study skills.
In the academic year 2004-05, SIs were assigned to classes whose weekly study sessions were well attended by students. These classes were predominantly in Math, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, with a few sections in English, Political Science, and one American Language course. SI sections in the sciences enjoyed the highest attendance, followed by Math.
In internal studies on student attendance in SI sessions, students who participated in SI at least six hours per semester increased their overall course grade by one-half grade to 1.25 grades compared to non-participating counterparts in the same class.
For more information, please contact the SI Program Specialist at (909) 594-5611, extension 4572 or efigueroa@mtsac.edu .
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