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Pletcher, Bethanie C.; Nicol, Marilyn; Harper, Tracy; Hollenbaugh, Michelle; Johnson, Robin; Staples, Michele – Reading Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine the effects of a tutorial program on first-grade children's reading skills and their tutors' (also preservice teachers) knowledge of reading instruction. Participants consisted of a group of 30 first-grade children served in the program and a control group of 30 children. Literacy…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors, Elementary School Teachers
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Lake, Vickie E.; Greulich, Luana; Folsom, Jessica S.; Guidry, Lisa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This randomized-control trial examined the learning of preservice teachers taking an initial Early Literacy course in an early childhood education program and of the kindergarten or first grade students they tutored in their field experience. Preservice teachers were randomly assigned to one of two tutoring programs: Book Buddies and Tutor…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Learning Strategies
Green, Sarah Elizabeth; Smith, Thomas – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The goal of the overall study was to evaluate the potential of Math Recovery (MR), a pullout, one-to-one tutoring program, to increase mathematics achievement among low-performing first graders, thereby closing the school-entry achievement gap by enabling them to achieve at the level of their higher-performing peers in the regular mathematics…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Tutors, Teacher Characteristics