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RPISE Reporter, 1988
Each issue of "PRISE Reporter" offers a feature article on educating handicapped students and provides descriptions of other information sources, continuing and completed research, and promising practices. The December 1987 issue contains an article by Martha Thurlow titled "A Skeleton in Our Closet? The Special Education…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities
Maxwell, Martha – Review of Research in Developmental Education, 1990
Studies suggest that developmental students like peer tutoring, are more relaxed with peers, and feel that peer tutoring helps their grades. However, the small number of studies on college tutoring provides no consistent evidence that underprepared students who are tutored improve either their grades or grade point averages. The students who do…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, High Risk Students