• Helped to support tutors’ learning through testing and clarifying their understanding, and reorganizing and building ideas;
• Gave tutors the opportunity to revisit to revisit fundamental ideas and make links between conceptual areas;
• Prompted tutors to rehearse ideas, working through them repeatedly to secure an appropriate level of understanding;
• Led to reflection on tutors’ own learning
• Gave tutors the opportunity to focus o key points, and to present material in a format which required engagement with basic ideas and understanding of the tutee’s perspective; and
• Led to tutors working through and reorganizing their understanding and using mental rehearsal of peer- tutoring episodes to help focus on gaps in their own subject knowledge (Galbraith & Winterbottom, 2010, p. 331)