Project STEP was developed at John Reed Middle School, Redding, Connecticut, to investigate the feasibility of directly involving retired citizens in an instructional relationship with learning-disabled junior and senior high school students. The project proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of techniques for training senior citizens as remedial tutors, increasing the academic skills of the students, improving the psychological well-being of the students, and providing the classroom teachers with materials developed by the tutors and adolescents. The validation team examined the program, and found it satisfactory in three general areas -- (1) Effectiveness/Success: the project demonstrated success in training senior citizens to act as tutors of the learning disabled student, academic achievement of these students as well as their attitudes toward school have improved, and positive behavior changes and attitudes were reported by parents; (2) Cost Information: the program followed standard budgetary procedures, expended money in an appropriate fashion, and reported fiscal matters in a fashion easily adoptable or adaptable by other interested school districts; (3) Exportability: the project as written and developed can be exported to other systems. The validation team noted three areas of innovation--the use of senior citizens as tutors for learning disabled students, the use of a game approach rather than a traditional didactic relationship, and the stress on affective as well as cognitive behavioral change on the part of both tutor and tutee. (MB)