The relationships are mapped out below. Workshops are integral, coordinated with the course. Close faculty involvement. Peer leaders are successful in course and are well trained and closely supervised. Workshop materials are appropriately challenging and encourage collaborative learning.
Institution supports teaching innovations.
Strang provided contact information for anybody desiring resources from the Workshop, including a Guidebook and a publication entitled On Becoming a Peer Leader. Strang stated that in his own classes he has offered these group learning opportunities on an optional, volunteer basis and has collected some data to measure outcomes. This data suggests that the further one goes down the GPA scale the more group work helps to produce success in the course. So, those with lower GPAs had better outcomes in the course if they participated in the group learning opportunities. Strang concluded by stating that the most personally satisfying part of peer-led team learning is observing the development of the workshop leaders.