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Success of Our Students
Luvo helps students put collaborative and active learning into practice. It is well-known that students improve their own retention by teaching - and even just preparing to teach1 - others. Using Luvo, both students teaching and students in need of help become active learners: peer learners seek out and receive supplemental instruction directly from their peers, and peer mentors refine their knowledge through instruction. In a Luvo user survey, 67% of buyers agreed that using Luvo helped them improve their grade in their specific course, and 81% of sellers felt more prepared for exams.
Making study guides throughout the semester prevents me from cramming and keeps me continually focusing for an entire class.
Amanda Ferraro
Peer Mentor, Florida State University
When you go to class and you're overwhelmed, you kind of feel hopeless. It feels good to know that there are people who are willing to help.
Anjelica Mendheim
Peer Learner, Florida State University
Hi, I'm Amanda!
I'm a junior majoring in Business Management, and minoring in Math and Free Enterprise Ethics. I'll graduate from FSU in 2016.
Luvo has helped me ...
Procrastinate less. Making my study guides throughout the semester prevents me from cramming and keeps me continually focusing for an entire class. Creating study guides has helped with my study skills and time management skills and helps me understand what’s important to the professor. I’ve been able to study more efficiently and understand how to do more in a smaller time frame. Overall it has definitely improved my grades, study skills, work ethic, and bank account.
My peer relationships have gotten stronger ...
Now that they've used my study guides, my classmates want to study with me more often. I include my email on my profile so they can contact me with specific questions. A girl emailed me to thank me for making one study guide, and I got really positive feedback on that guide in general. I'm really proud of that one.
I've gained more confidence.
Every time I sell a guide, I get more confident as a student. So that confidence will be a good asset as I go into my senior year and apply for grad schools. I'm taking classes that relate more and more to my major, and now I have all of the past study guides I've made on hand to refer to. I've built up my reputation as a study guide creator, and my classmates see me as someone they want to get help from and study with.
Hi, I'm Anjelica!
I'm a senior majoring in Management in FSU. I had a Finance class with Amanda, and bought her Study Guides!
I was struggling with Finance 3403.
I usually study from guides I make myself, but I always felt like the notes I was taking in this class weren't helping. I was missing a part of the puzzle. I needed to try something different.
Seeing it from another perspective made it click!
I found Amanda's study guides and I thought, "Wow, this is really well put together!" A good study guide flows very well; it creates the whole picture. Her study guides were thorough and used a lot of real-world examples. From her guides, I learned WHY this information was important. When you're learning WHY, then you apply it to almost everything later on.
When I needed some clarification, I asked Amanda.
Amanda put her email on her storefront. I was having a really hard time in the class, and I emailed her and said, "Look, you said on your page that if I need help I can email you. I'm really freaking out!" We met in the library and I highlighted everything in her guide I didn't quite understand; she went over it with me until I got it.
When you go to class and you're overwhelmed, you kind of feel hopeless. But knowing that there was another student who could help me made me feel like, "Okay, even if i don't understand something, I'll try to understand it, and if i don't know something, I can ask her to help me." It feels good to know that there are people who are willing to help.
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References:
1. "Expecting to teach enhances learning and oganization of knowledge in free recall of text passages," Nestokjo, John F.; Bui, Dung C.; Kornell, Nate; Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon. 2014