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Download full textJenkins, Joseph R.; Jenkins, Linda M. – 1981
The monograph focuses on tutoring as a means of improving achievement in handicapped and disadvantaged students. Chapter 1 looks at some of the factors which detract from instructional time, and points out some of the benefits of tutoring which are supported by research. Peer or cross age tutoring is discussed in Chapter 2 in terms of academic…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. – 1989
This document begins with a paper titled "Accommodating for Greater Student Variance in Local Schools" by Jacqueline Thousand and Richard Villa, which identifies the fundamental characteristics of successful heterogeneous public schools and describes specific examples of educational and organizational practices that enable schools to accommodate…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Heterogeneous Grouping
Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reviews ERIC materials dealing with effective tutoring programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching, Program Development
Egbert, Robert L., Ed.; Kluender, Mary M., Ed. – 1984
Although the research base on teaching, learning, and effective schools has expanded, the results of that research have been implemented only to a limited degree, either in the classroom or in the training of teachers. One of the accusations that have frequently been made against teacher education is that it does not use a theoretical,…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Decision Making Skills, Educational Research
