Gibson, AP; McGowan, S; (2017) Students learning engineering skills together in cross-year-group integrated tutorials. In: Quadrado, JC and Bernardino, J and Rocha, J, (eds.) Proceedings of the 45th SEFI Annual Conference 2017. (pp. pp. 431-437). SEFI [and[ Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)

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Through tutorials, students can develop their engineering and professional skills outside taught modules. We introduced a new integrated tutorial system in which students were taught in mixed year groups. Questionnaires and focus groups were used to investigate whether students preferred integrated tutorials or tutorials in their year groups. There was a clear preference for integrated tutorials, with students feeling that they provided improved pastoral and academic support and were more stimulating. They particularly appreciated the opportunity to mix with students from other years in a learning community. A minority of students felt that mixing the year groups meant that less material was relevant to individual students than in singleyear group tutorials. Overall, integrated tutorials were felt to offer a more supportive learning experience than traditional year-group tutorials.

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