The impact of online reciprocal peer tutoring on students' academic performance

Abstract

Students learn and teach each other is believed able to optimize their learning outcome. Today, with the rapidly emergent online technology has provided the students' opportunity to gain knowledge without relying solely on teachers. By implementing a peer learning like reciprocal peer tutoring strategy, incorporating with the popular and trendy online platform such as Facebook can be used to improve educational outcomes. In this study, the reciprocal peer tutoring strategies have been implemented using Facebook as a platform for students to learn and discuss the subject matter. This study investigates the effectiveness of online reciprocal peer tutoring in improving their academic performance. A pre-experimental (Pre-and post-test) was conducted across 4 weeks, involving 29 undergraduate students. The result suggests the online reciprocal peer tutoring environment was found to significantly influence the students’ performance test. Thus, the online reciprocal peer tutoring can be promising in higher education.