Tutors & Tutorials

            Often times, students need addtional help outside of class to fully understand the material and to obtain that desireable and sometimes necassary grade.  Going to the faculty member's office hours is often the best first choice for such help.  Study groups and working with other students from the class are also very good options.  But even this is not enough some times.  To help students obtain additional help, the Penn State Altoona Learning Resources Center - http://www.psu.edu/dept/altoonalrc/altlrc.html provides tutors in a number of areas.  There are peer turtors which are students that have taken those classes and recieved and A or A- in the class. These peer turtors are also approved by the faculty member that had them in class.  As a result, they have some insight as to what the faculty members will expect of students and also have the faculty member's trust that they will do the job correctly.  Also available are some professional tutors.  These typically are instructors that teach some of the courses and have posted office hours which are open to any student that needs some additional help, being in thier class is not a requirement to visit these office hours.

            If a tutor is not avaliable for the course you need help in or not at the times you are free to meet, you can also take advantage of the many tutorial websites that are available for a wide range of subjects..  Below are some suggested websites to help you get started.  Please do try them out and see if they are the tutorials for you.  Also, always check with your faculty members, they often have suggestions for websites and tutorials that they think would be helpful for you.  They may also have other materials that they may be willing to share with you to help you get a better grasp of the material.

            We wish to thank Paula Ford, coordinator of the Penn State Altoona Learning Resources Center, for the the time she took to collect and comment upon the following tutorial websites.