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PAL at the University of Glasgow

By Steve Draper, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.

This page is my pointers to PAL at the University of Glasgow.

Pre-history

Getting pupils to teach each other goes back at least to Andrew Bell in the eighteenth century.

Our scheme derives more directly from an approach developed in the USA under the name of Supplemental Instruction in 1973, and now offered at about 60% of (research-oriented) US universities.

It was introduced into the UK at Kingston University in 1990 in modified form as PAL.

In 2002-3, the Student Network introduced it to Glasgow University for a course in Computing Science, supported by a grant from the Chancellor's fund.

Current schemes at Glasgow

The list below was last roughly updated in 2007 and is now out of date; but PAL is still important in some subjects.
See also:

My (out of date since 2007) list

Psychology (Levels 1,2,3) Contact: Judith Stevenson
Law (Level 2) Contact: Maria Fletcher
Film and theatre studies Contact: Karen Boyle, Vicky Price
Computing Science Contact: Quintin Cutts PAL was run here, but a somewhat different scheme is currently in action.
Classics and English Literature Contact: Catherine Steel
English Literature Contact: Alice Jenkins
History
Philosophy (level 1) Contact: Chris Lindsay
Medical school (Unconfirmed rumour: not mentioned on their website.)

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