OSU Extended Campus

Oregon State University Extended Campus

Online Tutoring - Tutoring Subjects

  • Accounting

SMARTHINKING supports the topics covered in Principles Accounting 1 and Principles Accounting 2 classes including topics such as Financial Reporting and Accounting Cycle, Operating Activities, Investing and Financing Activities, Foundations of Management Accounting, Capital Investment Decisions, and Planning, Control, and Performance Evaluation. SMARTHINKING e-structors™ are also qualified to provide support to students taking intermediate Managerial and Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, and Tax Accounting on a pre-arranged basis.

  • Biology

SMARTHINKING supports: Chemistry of Life; Evolution; Cells; Molecules; Energy; DNA; Genetics; Biodiversity; Plant Form and Function; Physiology; Ecology. SMARTHINKING tutorial support aligns with the AP™ Biology course.

  • Chemistry

SMARTHINKING supports: Measurement; Atomic Structure; Chemical Formula & Equations; Chemical Reactions; Thermo Chemistry; Electron Configurations; Bonding; States of Matter; Solubility; Reaction Rates; Acids & Bases; Equilibria; Introduction to Nuclear Chemistry; Introduction to Organic Chemistry. SMARTHINKING tutorial support aligns with the AP™ Chemistry course*.

  • Economics

SMARTHINKING supports the topics covered in Principles Microeconomics and Principles Macroeconomics classes including topics such as Basic Price Theory, the Theory of the Firm, Public Economics, Analysis of the Market Structure, Resource Allocation and Welfare Analysis, National Income Analysis, Monetary System and the Federal Reserve, Business Cycles and Growth and International Trade. SMARTHINKING e-structors are also qualified to provide support to students taking Intermediate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, International Trade and Finance, Mathematical Economics and Industrial Organization on a pre-arranged basis.

  • Mathematics

SMARTHINKING supports: Basic Math Skills, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus I & II or Single Variable Calculus. SMARTHINKING tutorial support aligns with the AP™ Calculus courses (AB & BC)*.

  • Physics

SMARTHINKING supports: Kinematics; Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion; Work and Energy; Circular Motion; Momentum; Simple and Harmonic Motion; Fluids; Heat and Temperature; The Ideal Gas Law; Thermodynamics; Electric Forces and Electric Fields; Electric Circuits; Magnetic Forces and Fields; Optics; Special Relativity; Particles and Waves; Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity; Waves and Sound; Electromagnetic Waves. SMARTHINKING's tutorial support aligns with the AP™ Physics B, AP™ Physics C (Mechanics), AP™ Physics C (Electricity & Magnetism)* courses.

  • Spanish

SMARTHINKING supports: topics covered in an introductory level Spanish sequence with an emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills.

  • Statistics

SMARTHINKING supports: Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis (Graphic Representations, Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, Position, Regression and Correlation); Probability (Combinatorics, Random Variables, Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables, Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables); Inferential Statistics (Sampling and Sampling Distributions, Central Limit Theorem, Confidence Intervals, Hypothesis Testing, Inference Concerning Correlation and Regression); Analysis of Variance (Categorical Data Analysis; Chi-square; Contingency Tables; Homogeneity tests; Decision Theory); Process and Quality Control (Control Charts)

  • Writing

SMARTHINKING Online Writing Lab is designed to assist students with writing across the curriculum. SMARTHINKING writing e-structors (tutors) have advanced degrees in composition and rhetoric, literature, creative writing, and other relevant fields within the humanities. They are trained to respond to essays in a range of academic subjects (e.g. lab reports, business plans, and literary analyses) and at a range of academic levels (from "developmental" writers to graduate students). Specifically, SMARTHINKING e-structors review students' writing in the following general academic areas at the secondary through graduate levels, unless otherwise indicated: Composition; Literature; English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL); Creative Writing; AP English (high school); English Language Arts (high school); Writing-Intensive Courses Across the Curriculum (to include writing projects for classes in the humanities, sciences, and business, and to include thesis and dissertation projects in the humanities and business).








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