Certifications

Campus Tutorial Services, both as a program and its tutors, has been awarded International Tutor Training Certification by the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA), a nationwide professional association made up of learning support programs at colleges and universities. This certification sets professional standards of skill, training, and evaluation for our tutors, and provides recognition and positive reinforcement for our tutors' successful work.

Achieving certification means that Campus Tutorial Services has met CRLA’s high standards for tutor selection, training, direct service, and evaluation as an integral part of their overall tutoring program. The CRLA is endorsed by the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE) and the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).

Training consists of three levels:

• Level 1 (Certified)
• Level 2 (Advanced)
• and Level 3 (Master)

New tutors must complete our Level 1 training. Once they complete 25 hours of tutoring, they are eligible to complete the Level 2 training. After they finish 25 more hours of tutoring as a Level 2 tutor, they are eligible to complete our Level 3 training. After the completion of each training, tutors receive a pay increase. 

Campus Tutorial Services has also been awarded the International Peer Educator Training Program Certification (IPTPC) by the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). The certification sets standards and guidelines for the minimum skills and training peer educators need to be successful, and also inspires peer educator trainers to go beyond minimum standards to create training programs that challenge peer educators to the highest level of expertise they can achieve. Moreover, certified training programs offer campus recognition and rewards for peer educators' successful work by certifying peer educators trained to the standards of CRLA's International Peer Educator Training Program Certification.

IPTPC communicates validity to critics, prestige among colleagues, and credibility to administrators and other institutional stakeholders. The certification criteria provided by CRLA's IPTPC can be used to develop a new program of peer educator training, revise an existing program, or expand a program into new areas of perceived need. As with tutor certification, IPTPC is a "living" program: criteria are reviewed annually in light of professional input and new learning in the field. 

Campus Tutorial Services also provides official Supplemental Instruction (SI) training to its tutors.  Supplemental Instruction, created at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is a non-remedial approach to learning that supports students toward academic success by integrating “what to learn” with “how to learn.” SI consists of regularly scheduled, voluntary, out-of-class group study sessions driven by students’ needs. Sessions are facilitated by SI-trained peer leaders who utilize collaborative activities to ensure peer-to-peer interaction in small groups. SI is implemented in high-risk courses in consultation with academic staff and is supported and evaluated by trained supervisors.