Evidence-based peer-tutoring program to improve students’ performance at the university Arco Tirado, José Luis Fernández Martín, Francisco Domingo Hervás Torres, Mirian Student performance Grade point average Higher education Peer-tutoring Evidence-based program The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the impact of a peertutoring program on academic performance among first-year students. The sample consisted of 102 first-year students from four-degree programs at a Spanish University. The academic performance was measured through the official student Academic reports. The assignment of the students to the experimental group (N = 51) and control group (N = 51) was done randomly. The intervention consisted of 20 highly structured individual weekly tutoring sessions delivered by senior and doctoral students, previously trained in three training sessions. The results show moderate effects’ size and statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group in the total academic course, as well as in the fall and spring semesters. 2020-03-06T12:56:29Z 2020-03-06T12:56:29Z 2019 journal article Arco-Tirado, J. L., Fernández-Martín, F. D., & Hervás-Torres, M. (2019). Evidence-based peer-tutoring program to improve students’ performance at the university. Studies in Higher Education, 1-13. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/60091 10.1080/03075079.2019.1597038 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Taylor & Francis