Over the past several years, peer tutoring programs have been developed and utilized in higher education. Subjective studies have been made on the effectiveness of these programs, but no quantitative measures of effectiveness exist in the literature. We present a quantitative way of measuring peer tutor training programs and peer tutor effectiveness. Since so many peer tutoring programs are fashioned in a similar way, this quantitative measure will be easily adaptable to most situations.
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