Efficiency Of The Peer Tutoring Model In Skills Training

Background: Peer tutoring is one of the growing areas in higher education. Peer tutoring positively contributes both peer tutors and peer tutees in terms of their personal development. Methods: This study was planned and realized as a random-controlled research. Results: The skills that were analyzed in the study (implementation of aspiration, skin preparation before the operation, deep breathe and cough exercise, indwelling urethral catheterization and the care of cholostomy-ileostomy) were fully completed by the majority of the experiment subjects at their fist attempts. The differences between two groups in this regard are found to be statistically significant. Furthermore, the OSPE mean scores show that the experiment subjects have higher scores on the skills of aspiration implementation indwelling urethral catheterization. Conclusions: The success of the peer tutoring model is closely related to the fact that peers support each other, they can more easily communicant, they can do the task more easily due to the fact that there is no authority figure and also, the learning environment is free of stress.