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Our peer tutors are available to answer questions to build skills in quantitative and qualitative concepts and software programs.
Our tutoring staff can guide you in understanding pertinent academic topics and concepts to help you complete your course work and assignments independently.
Tutoring Appointments Options
Course-based statistics tutoring sessions are delivered as 1-on-1 appointments or group sessions. Course-based qualitative concepts tutoring is available through 1-on-1 appointments. Visit the tutoring schedule to see the options available for your current course..Go To Tutoring Schedule
Statistics Peer Tutors can help you with
Easing into
Statistics
"The tutor eased my fears with my upcoming statistics assignments. I now feel confident that I will succeed. Thank you."
"Excellent and professional in providing assistance. Helped ease my worries and supported my learning within my own style. Guided me to discovering the answers myself."
Reviewing Basic
Statistical Concepts
"[My tutor] not only showed me the procedure but she also clarified names of the variable as well as answered my question clearly and precisely."
"The tutor thoroughly answered all of my questions with visual aids and detailed explanations."
Providing Examples in
SPSS/Excel/Statdisk
""The tutor takes time to explain the weekly discussion and assignment requirements and offers real examples that help successfully guide a student through their own scholarly work."
"The tutor took time during the session to show examples and answer all my questions."
"The tutor was fantastic at helping me understand the assignment and information in layman's term and provided easy to understand examples to put the information into perspective. He was great!."
Interpreting
Statistical Output
"The tutor made it easier to understand the SPSS output and how to interpret. This actually increased my confidence which is awesome!"
"The tutor helped me refine my variables to fit my research question better. Also to better understand the SPSS output. Great session!"
Enhancing
Statistical Knowledge
"Excellent patient, encouraging, and knowledgeable service that helps me to understand statistics and SPSS more fully."
Clarifying Social Change
Interpretations
"The tutor uses storytelling effectively to illustrate new concepts which allows me to understand the social change relevance better."
Peer Tutoring Appointment Guidelines
Appointment Guidelines
- Appointments are made on a first-come, first-served basis.
- All appointments are scheduled for 60 to 90 minutes (dependent on schedule options). You may not need that entire time during your appointment, but please plan to arrive at the scheduled time.
- Appointments can be scheduled the same day, up until the start time of an available slot.
- If you are attending a group tutoring appointment, you are expected to arrive prepared to engage and participate in the session.
- You may cancel your appointment up to 60 minutes in advance of the scheduled time. Appointments that have not been canceled are marked as “no shows”.
- If a tutoring staff member must cancel an appointment due to an urgent situation, they will try to reschedule with you as soon as possible.
Appointment Expectations
- Appointments are available to provide course related skill-level support. Tutoring staff can guide you in understanding pertinent academic topics and concepts to help you complete your course work and assignments independently.
- Appointments are not meant to provide time to check course assignments for errors or edit course assignments before submission for grading. Tutoring staff will help students learn the concepts to build course related skills for academic success.
Policy for Missed or Cancelled Appointments
- Tutoring staff wait for 15 minutes after the appointment start time for you to attend your session. If you do not show after 15 minutes, the tutor will log out of the session. Students who are more than 15 minutes late to an appointment will be marked as a "no show". Please refer to the "no show" policies below for more information.
- No show polices:
- First violation: More than three missed appointments will automatically disable your account. You will be notified via
e-mail if your account is disabled. You must e-mail OASISPeerTutoring@mail.waldenu.edu to request your account
be re-enabled. The tutoring administrators will respond within 24 hours. - Second violation: After 3 more missed appointments (second violation), your account is permanently disabled.
- First violation: More than three missed appointments will automatically disable your account. You will be notified via
Troubleshooting Your Appointment
- Question: I went into the WC Online system, clicked on the appointment box, and nothing happened.
- Check to make sure your pop-up blocker is turned off. This might prevent the tutoring room screen from opening after you click on the appointment square in the schedule.
- You may already have an appointment open but have that window behind the schedule. In this situation, when you click on another appointment, the appointment is opened, but can’t be seen because it is a separate browser behind the schedule. To fix, simply close all browser windows (or the browser itself) to address the issue.
- Question: I went into the appointment room and my tutor did not show up.
- Please double-check the time zone difference. All appointments are made in Central Standard Time.
- Check your Walden e-mail to make sure that the tutor did not e-mail you with an update regarding your appointment (i.e. they are running behind schedule, or they needed to reschedule due to an unforeseen emergency).
- Question: I arrived at my appointment a few minutes late, and my tutor was not there.
- Tutors typically schedule several back-to-back appointments with students during a block of time. Plan to log into your session 5 minutes early to ensure that you are in the room and there are no technology issues.
- Because tutors work on a fairly tight schedule, if you are not in the tutoring room within 5-10 minutes of your appointment start time, the tutor reserves the right to cancel so he or she can prepare for their next session. If this happens, please e-mail us at OASISPeerTutoring@mail.waldenu.edu immediately to let us know.
Doctoral and Capstone Support
- Visit the Office of Research and Doctoral Services for help with:
- Research design and methodology advising
- myDR
- Doctoral Degree Coach
- IRB Process
- Research design and methodology advising
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