Wikipedia on Answers.com: Tutoria

<div class="dablink" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="plainlinks selfreference">For tutorial about Wikipedia, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial" rel="nofollow" target="AnswersQueryWindow" title="Wikipedia:Tutorial">Wikipedia:Tutorial</a>.</span></div><div> </div><div class="dablink" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="plainlinks selfreference">For other tutorial information on Wikipedia, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents" rel="nofollow" target="AnswersQueryWindow" title="Help:Contents">Help:contents</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b>tutorial</b> is used to teach material. More <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/interactivity" target="_top">interactive</a> and specific than a <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/bargain-1" target="_top">book</a> or a <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/lecture" target="_top">lecture</a>; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Depending on the context a tutorial can take one of many forms, ranging from a set of instructions to complete a task to an interactive problem solving session (usually in academia).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><table class="toc" id="toc" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <span class="h2">Contents</span> </div><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#Academia"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Academia</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#Internet"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Internet</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#Computer-based_tutoring"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Computer-based tutoring</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="Academia">Academia</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In British <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/academia" target="_top">academic</a> <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/idiom" target="_top">parlance</a>, a tutorial is a small class of one, or only a few, <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/student" target="_top">students</a>, in which the <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutor" target="_top">tutor</a> (a <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/lecturer-1" target="_top">lecturer</a> or other academic staff member) gives individual attention to the students<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="nofollow" target="AnswersQueryWindow" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2007">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. The tutorial system at <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/oxford-university" target="_top">Oxford</a> and <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/university-of-cambridge" target="_top">Cambridge</a> is fundamental to methods of teaching at those universities, but it is by no means peculiar to them; <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/heythrop-college" target="_top">Heythrop College</a> (<a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/university-of-london" target="_top">University of London</a>), for instance, also offers a tutorial system with one on one teaching. It is rare for newer universities in the UK to have the resources to offer individual tuition; six to eight (or even more) students is a far more common tutorial size. At Cambridge, a tutorial is known as a <b>supervision</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In some Canadian universities, such as the <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/university-of-waterloo" target="_top">University of Waterloo</a> or the <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/university-of-toronto" target="_top">University of Toronto</a>, a <b>tutorial</b> refers to something more like a <b><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/recitation" target="_top">recitation</a></b> in an American university, that is, a class of between 12-18 students that is supplemental to a large <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/lecture" target="_top">lecture</a> course, which gives students the opportunity to discuss the lectures and/or additional readings in smaller groups. These tutorials are often led by <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/graduate-school" target="_top">graduate students</a>, normally known as "<a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/teaching-assistant" target="_top">Teaching Assistants</a>" (TAs), though it is not unknown for the primary instructor of a course, even if a full professor, to take a tutorial. At <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/princeton-university" target="_top">Princeton University</a>, these tutorials are known as <i>preceptorials</i> and are led by <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/preceptor" target="_top">preceptors</a>. <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/woodrow-wilson" target="_top">Woodrow Wilson</a> developed the preceptorial system, intending it to be the main form of teaching.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/australian-university-system" target="_top">Australian</a> and <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/education-in-new-zealand" target="_top">New Zealand</a> universities, a <b>tutorial</b> (colloquially called a <b>tute</b>) is a class of 10–30 students. Such tutorials are very similar to the Canadian system, although tutorials are usually led by <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/bachelor-s-degree" target="_top">honours</a> or <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/postgraduate-education" target="_top">postgraduate</a> students, known as '<a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutor" target="_top">tutors</a>'.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the two campuses of <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/st-john-s-college-u-s" target="_top">St. John's College, U.S.</a> and a few other American colleges with a similar version of the <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/great-books" target="_top">Great Books</a> program, a "tutorial" is a class of 12 - 16 students who meet regularly with the guidance of a tutor. The tutorial focuses on a certain subject area (e.g. mathematics tutorial, language tutorial) and generally proceeds with careful reading of selected primary texts and working through associated exercises (e.g., demonstrating a Euclid proof or translating ancient Greek poetry). Since formal lectures do not play a large part in the St. John's College curriculum, the tutorial is the primary method by which certain subjects are studied. However, at St. John's the tutorial is considered ancillary to the <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/seminar" target="_top">seminar</a>, in which a slightly larger group of students meets with two tutors for broader discussion of the particular texts on the seminar list.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some US colleges, such as <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/williams-college" target="_top">Williams College</a> in Williamstown, Massachusetts, offer a tutorials almost identical in structure to that of an Oxbridge tutorial. At Williams, students in tutorials typically work in pairs alongside a professor and meet weekly, alternately presenting position papers or critiques of their partner's paper.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="Internet">Internet</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Internet computer tutorials can take the form of a screen recording, a written document (either online or downloadable), or an audio file, where a person will give step by step instructions on how to do something.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tutorials usually have the following characteristics:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>A <b>presentation of content</b>, usually with an example or examples, often broken up into discrete modules or sections.</li><li>Some <b>method of review</b> that reinforces or tests understanding of the content in the related module or section.</li><li>A <b>transition to additional modules or sections</b> that builds on the instructions already provided. Tutorials can be <i>linear</i> or <i>branching</i>.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">While many writers refer to a mere list of instructions or tips as a tutorial, this usage can be misleading.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="Computer-based_tutoring">Computer-based tutoring</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In computer-based education, a <b>tutorial</b> is a computer program whose purpose it is to assist users in learning how to use (parts of) a <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/computer-software" target="_top">software</a> product such as an <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/office-applications-suite" target="_top">office suite</a> or any other application, operating system interface, programming tool, or <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/video-game" target="_top">video game</a>. There are two kinds of software tutorials: movie tutorials that the user views; and <a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/interactivity" target="_top">interactive</a> tutorials where the user follows on-screen instructions (and—in some cases—watches short instruction movies), whereupon he/she does the tutorial exercises and receives feedback depending on his/her actions. Some computer based tutorials can also be put up on the Web.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutor" target="_top">Tutor</a></li><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tuition-agency" target="_top">Tuition agency</a></li><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/teaching-assistant" target="_top">Teaching assistant</a></li><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/faq-1" target="_top">FAQ</a></li><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/how-to" target="_top">How-to</a></li><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/knowledge-base" target="_top">Knowledge base</a></li><li><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutor-expertise-in-adult-education" target="_top">Tutor expertise in adult education</a></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#ixzz1ndMu6elA" style="color: #003399;">http://www.answers.com/topic/tutorial#ixzz1ndMu6elA</a></div>

Wikipedia on Answers.com: Tutoria

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