The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of epistemological beliefs(EB), self regulated
learning(SRL) and learning achievement according to the peer tutoring and individualized learning. The
subjects were 100 college students from the dept. of social welfare and pre-service teachers. Each of the
students was assigned to one of four experimental conditions: control, questions only(QO), non-reciprocal
peer tutoring(NRPT), reciprocal peer tutoring(RPT). The control and QO were the groups categorized as
individualized learning without tutoring. The control was provided only learning materials. QO was
provided with the questions to help the understanding of the learning materials. Unlike RPT, NRPT was
the group that didn’t need a role of being a teacher and student. The results of the study are as follows:
First, the NRPT group showed higher sophisticated EB than both of the individualized groups. Naive EB
of the tutoring groups was lower than QO group. Second, the motivational factors of SRL in both of the
tutoring groups were higher than that of the control group. Third, achievements of retention and
comprehension from both of the tutoring groups were higher than the control and QO. There was no
significant difference between RPT and NRPT in retention achievement. However, RPT showed higher
comprehension achievements than NRPT. Fourth, as for the changes of EB between pre and post learning
process, there were no significant differences in RPT. NRPT demonstrated a noticeable decrease in naive
EB where as sophisticated EB didn’t. Fifth, in NRPT, there were significant changes in all of the SRL
factors, however, in RPT, the change was limited to only in cognitive factors. These results would provide
some implications concerning with the strategies, procedures, designs of tutoring groups. In addition to the
results, types of tutoring and learning strategies applied considering outcome of learning achievement.