Supplemental Instruction (SI)

Jessica Enders & Tara McCarthy HSI Title VFLEX 2012

• What is SI? • What is an SI Leader?• Faculty Involvement and Cooperation• Hiring and Training• Data Collection and Evaluation• Fall 2012 Schedule• How to Request an SI Leader

Overview

Tell me and I forget…

Show me and I remember…

Involve me and I understand.

• Developed by Dr. Deanna Martin in 1973 at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

• SI is everywhere...• An academic support program that targets historically difficult

courses. • A non-remedial approach to learning enrichment that

increases student performance and retention.

What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)?

• SI offers review sessions to all students enrolled in a targeted course. SI study sessions are informal seminars in which students review notes, discuss readings, develop organizational tools and prepare for exams.

• Students learn how to integrate course content with reasoning and study skills.

• Students with varying levels of academic preparedness and diverse ethnicities participate. There is no remedial stigma attached to SI since the program targets high-risk courses rather than high-risk students.

What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)?

Peer-facilitated, regularly scheduled, out-of-class review

sessions, that incorporate collaborative learning

techniques and study skills related to a specific section.

In Short...

• SI Leaders are typically students themselves who have taken the class before and earned a high grade (A or B).

• Traditionally faculty recommend the leaders.• SI Leaders attend class every day, model positive student

behavior, take notes, and listen closely to the professor. • SI Leaders also share with students how to effectively study

for the course. • SI Leaders are NOT teaching assistants. They do not grade

homework or tests, or lecture during class.

What is an SI Leader?

• Handout and FAQ’s

Faculty Involvement and Cooperation

• Hiring: – Faculty Referral Form– Online Application– Faculty Recommendation– Interview and Training– On-going Observation

• Two-day Training: – Collaborative Learning Techniques– Strategies for Facilitating Group Discussion and Redirecting

Questions– SI Planning Sheets– Bloom’s Taxonomy and Learning Styles

SI Hiring/Training

• Attendance Sheets• Final Grades• Student Evaluation (Beginning, Mid and Final) • Faculty Evaluation• SI Leader Observations

*Thank you to Michael Harlow for designing all the electronic forms!

Data Collection

1) Retention- To increase retention within targeted historically difficult courses a. Measure: D, W, F rates of SI and non-SI students

2) Learning- To improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses a. Measure: Mean final course grades of SI and non-SI students

within the same section. In addition:• Number of students served by SI Program (number of

students attending SI sessions)• Students satisfaction with SI Program

Evaluation of SI Program

• Basic Skills– 3 English/Reading – 5 Math

• Transfer-Level (funded by the Cooperative Title V HSI Grant)– 2 English– 2 Math

Fall 2012

Requesting an SI Leader

For additional information, please contact:

Tara McCarthyHSI Title V SI/Tutorial Coordinator

760-776-7333tmccarthy@collegeofthedesert.edu