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Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic support system developed to improve student performance and retention in historically difficult courses. Offered by peer leaders, SI involves collaborative review sessions that integrate course content with study skills, ensuring a stigma-free environment. We cover faculty involvement, hiring practices, training methodologies, and detailed evaluation strategies. This overview presents a comprehensive insight into the SI program at College of the Desert, detailing its objectives, structure, and how to request an SI leader.
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Supplemental Instruction (SI) Jessica Enders & Tara McCarthy HSI Title V FLEX 2012
Overview • 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
Tell me and I forget… Show me and I remember… Involve me and I understand.
What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)? • 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.
In Short... Peer-facilitated, regularly scheduled, out-of-class review sessions, that incorporate collaborative learning techniques and study skills related to a specific section.
What is an SI Leader? • 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.
Faculty Involvement and Cooperation • Handout and FAQ’s
SI Hiring/Training • 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
Data Collection • 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!
Evaluation of SI Program • Retention- To increase retention within targeted historically difficult courses • Measure: D, W, F rates of SI and non-SI students • Learning- To improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses • 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
Fall 2012 • Basic Skills • 3 English/Reading • 5 Math • Transfer-Level(funded by the Cooperative Title V HSI Grant) • 2 English • 2 Math
For additional information, please contact: Tara McCarthy HSI Title V SI/Tutorial Coordinator 760-776-7333 tmccarthy@collegeofthedesert.edu
