Campus Tutorial Services

Supplemental Instruction

What is Supplemental Instruction?
S.I. provides structured study times; it's not another lecture. At an S.I. session a group leader who has already successfully completed the course facilitates cooperative, interactive learning; students are encouraged not to be just passive onlookers. Regular attendance every week helps you to learn the most effective strategies for studying the content of a course; S.I. is not designed for cram sessions right before tests.

How can you benefit?
Data collected over the past 25 years from more than 500 institutions where S.I. is offered proved that people who participate regularly in S.I. improve their grades because the program helps them improve their understanding of course material, guarantees structured study times, and teaches study strategies that can be used over and over in many other courses. Through S.I. you can learn how to make your study time more efficient; you will develop skills in test preparation, taking notes, reading texts, interpersonal communication, and writing papers. You will receive the support of a very dedicated and successful peer leader who has done all of this before; you can feel comfortable asking your S.I. leader any question you would like to (even if you feel that it's stupid), and the leader will also help you learn how to ask the professor to explain what you need to know and will encourage you to not give up until you are truly satisfied that you understand the material. In general, because S.I. students learn more, they get better grades.

Recent Results
For the courses where S.I. was offered: S.I. Group Average Final Grade Non-S.I. Group Average Final Grade
1996-97 2.81 2.42
1997-98 2.69 2.28
1998-99 2.65 2.13
1999-00 2.66 2.42
2000-01 2.90 2.40
2001-02 2.58 2.10
2002- 03 2.57 2.20
2003-04 2.66 2.16
2004-05 2.50 2.00
2005-06 2.68 2.18
2006-07 2.73 2.15
2007-08 2.74 2.18
2008-09 2.94 2.26

What do you need to do?

Supplemental Instruction Leaders

Supplemental Instruction Leaders
(From left) Matthew, John, Lynn, Amanda, Scena

Supplemental Instruction Study Sessions

Spring 2009
Monday 4:30-5:30 p.m. Global Perspectives 140/ Ghavamshahidi/ Lynn McCutchen 5
  5:30-6:30 p.m.. Biology 120/Woller/Amanda McCutchan 11A
  6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Curran/Matthew

McCutchan  112

  6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Woller/Amanda

McCutchan 11A

  6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Kriska/ Scena

McCutchan 11B
  7:30-8:30 p.m. Chemistry 102/Phillips/John McCutchen 11B
Tuesdays 4:30-5:30 p.m. Global Perspectives 140/ Ghavamshahidi/ Lynn McCutchen 5
  6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Curran/Matthew

McCutchan  112

  7:30-8:30 p.m. Chemistry 102/Phillips/John McCutchen 11B
 Wednesday 4:30-5:30 p.m. Global Perspectives 140/ Ghavamshahidi/ Lynn McCutchen 5
  5:30-6:30 p.m.. Biology 120/Woller/Amanda McCutchan 11A
  6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Curran/Matthew

McCutchan  112

6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Kriska/ Scena

McCutchan 11B
  7:30-8:30 p.m. Chemistry 102/Phillips/John McCutchen 11B
 Thursdays 4:30-5:30 p.m. Global Perspectives 140/ Ghavamshahidi/ McCutchen 5
5:30-6:30 p.m.. Biology 120/Woller/Amanda McCutchan 11A
6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Curran/Matthew

McCutchan  112

  6:30-7:30 p.m.

Biology 120/Kriska/ Scena

McCutchan 11B
  7:30-8:30 p.m. Chemistry 102/Phillips/John McCutchen 11B

NOTE: These sessions are reserved only for those students enrolled in these professor's classes.

For more information on Supplemental Instruction, contact Dr. Shane Staff at 472-5948 or go to http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EPTW/eptw14/eptw14d.html

Faculty and students may also email their questions to us.

(Instructors need to request S.I. in the middle of the semester that precedes the semester when S.I. would be provided.)