UNH has partnered with Knack to help strengthen the peer learning community on campus! With Knack, any enrolled undergraduate student at UNH can get help from a fellow peer that already aced your class. You can choose to meet up online on the Knack platform or on campus in person!
If you’ve aced a course, sign up as a Knack Tutor to help your peers! Your faculty can recommend you as a tutor, too! Do a training online and start taking requests. Knack pays you $15/hr. You work the hours you want, when you want, and help out another UNH student! There are also perks and swag you can win!
Fall 2022 v. Fall 2023 v. Fall 2024 Knack Stats
Students are finding Knack, and each other!
Fall statistics:
- FALL 22: 408 students visited for 1,262 tutoring sessions versus FALL 23: 583 students completed 2,243 tutoring sessions. A 77.73% increase! In FALL 24: 638 students completed 2,336 sessions!
- The total number of tutoring sessions completed in the 2023-24 academic year was 4,499, a 42.55% increase compared to 2022-23. Students attended an average of 5.39 tutoring sessions. In 2024-25, 4,584 sessions were completed.
- Sessions completed is great, but correlation to retention is even better! An internal IR&A study of first-year students with academic early alerts during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years found that:
- Students flagged as at-risk in three or more courses who received Knack tutoring in those courses were retained at 91% versus 66% for those who did not have Knack tutoring
- Declared students who participated in Knack tutoring in flagged courses had significantly higher retention rates than declared students who did not participate in Knack tutoring (90% vs. 81%) and for non-athletes it was 87% vs. 80%
- In-state students who received Knack tutoring in flagged courses had significantly higher retention rates than in-state students who did not receive support from Knack (95% vs. 82%), and finally
- First-Generation students who received Knack tutoring in flagged courses had significantly higher retention rates than First-Generation students who did not receive support from Knack (92% vs. 77%)
- We need more tutors on the platform, especially for high-demand courses for which tutors don't respond to requests at a high enough rate. Those courses include: BMS 507, MATH 422, CHEM 403/404, PHYS 401, ECON 401, and ADMN 502
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Pilot Year 2021-2022
In 2021-2022, UNH tried out Knack with a limited number of courses.
- In Fall 2021, 100 students visited for 276 tutoring sessions.
- In spring 2022, 68 students visited for 340 tutoring sessions.
- UNH had 42 Peer Tutors complete training and 34 offered sessions to peers.
- The average number of tutoring sessions per student was 4.22 sessions.
- UNH Knack Peer Tutors covered 286 courses.
100% of students tutored responded on a satisfaction survey that their tutoring sessions were Excellent, Very Good, or Good! 100% said they would return for tutoring, and 75% said they would recommend to a friend.
100% of students attending 4 or more tutoring sessions responded that they Strongly Agree or Agree that after their tutoring sessions they feel more confident in their understanding of the material and are better able to do the work on their own.
