HYPOTHESIS

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Why Are Interpersonal Relationships Important in
a Peer-Led Learning Group? Ugoeze Lauretta
Onuoha, Peer Leader, City College of the City
University of New York

• CONCLUSION
• After the experiment which supported the
• Forming stage of Tuckmans theory on group
• development, the students in the peer-led
• learning workshop improved in their grades
• and performances.
• One of the purposes of peer-led learning is
• providing an active learning environment for
• students working together in small groups,
• and this experiment was able to accomplish
• this purpose, which helped the students learn
• more and assimilate better.
• This experiment also helped the peer-led
• workshop leaders in having a more organized
• group, increasing the team work among the
• students, and yielding a more effective
• learning process

HYPOTHESIS Interpersonal relationships are
important in a peer-led learning group as a
strong relationship with one another is important
in a groups ability to function and work
efficiently to accomplish the task at hand.
LITERATURE REVIEW In 1965, Dr. Bruce Tuckman
published his forming,storming, norming,
perfoming model. This experiment will focus more
on the Forming Stage. According to Linda Dixon on
the stages of group dynamics as group members
work together and go through these different
stages, they must reach a general understanding
of interpersonal relationships and group goals.
Forming Group members must orient
themselves with each other. Storming
Interpersonal conflicts arise.
Norming Group members resolve their
differences. Performing Group members move into
Interdependence. The Forming Stage
interconnect and leads to the other stages, which
in turn enhances group participation and
effective team work. According to Cheryl A. Rice,
in one of her elements of leadership, inclusive,
group participation influences the whole with the
distinctive behaviors of the members of the
group, whether they sit quietly or take an
active part in the process.

• REFERENCES
• (2005) Bruce W Smith, M.K.. Tuckman-
• Forming, storming, norming and performing in
• Groups, the encyclopaedia of informal
• education,
• www.infed.org/thinkers/tuckman.htm.
• Last updated March 14, 2005.
• Dixon, Linda- Stages of Group Dynamics
• Implications for PLTL,
• PLTL-progressions online, Summer 2000, 14
• Available at www.pltl.org www.pltl.org
• Rice Cheryl A.- Relational leadership and its
• Usefulness to the workshop model,
• PLTL-Progressions online, Summer 2000, 14
• Available at www.pltl.org www.pltl.org.