Dr Keith J Topping is MSc Course Director in Educational Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Dundee. He is also director of the Centre for Paired Learning, which develops and researches the effectiveness of methods for non-professionals (such as parents or peers) to tutor others - in fundamental skills (eg in reading, spelling, writing, science, maths, information technology) and at higher order levels, across a wide age range and in many different contexts. He directed the Higher Education Effective Learning Project (peer assisted learning between students in college and...