Supplemental Instruction, Learning Communities, and Students Studying Together.

Community College Review | September 22, 1998| | Copyright

This study was designed to investigate the extent to which peer relations increased among students who participated in a modified program of supplemental instruction at a community college. Peer relations have been examined as a subset of social integration variables in studies of four-year colleges under a variety of labels--contact, interaction, involvement, integration, personal bonds--and with a variety of methods (Astin, 1993; Feldman & Newcomb, 1969; Kraemer, 1997; Kuh, Schuh, Whitt, & Associates, 1991; Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991; Tinto, 1993). The theoretical inspiration ...

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