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Training Tutors to Talk about Writing.
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North, Stephen M. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Discusses instructing writing tutors, and tutorial classroom technqiues. Contains a list of different kinds of tutorial sessions to serve as a model for tutors. (HTH)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Models, Tutorial Programs
Tutoring Developmental Mathematics: Overcoming Anxiety and Fostering Independent Learning.
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Gourgey, Annette F. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1992
Reviews literature on developmental students' negative attitudes toward mathematics and themselves. Describes a model for math tutoring emphasizing the reduction of math anxiety and development of capacities for independent learning through dialogue, analysis of error, response to affective needs, reeducation about the learning process, and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Learning Processes, Literature Reviews, Mathematics Anxiety
Keller's Personalized System of Instruction: The Search for a Basic Distance Learning Paradigm.
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Coldeway, Dan O.; Spencer, Robert E. – Distance Education, 1982
Reviews research results and arguments supporting Keller's Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) as a paradigm for distance learning, describes a project at Athabasca University which compared various PSI configurations for distance learning, and discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and flexibility of PSI for such use. Nineteen references…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Individualized Instruction
Instructional Models for Tutoring: A Review.
Frey, Linda A.; Reigeluth, Charles M. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1986
Describes tutoring models and compares instructional strategies classified as organizational, delivery, and management strategies, in those models that have been found effective: Literacy Volunteers, Laubach Literacy, Structured Tutoring, Programmed Tutoring, Peer-Mediated Instruction, and the Audio-Tutorial System. Tutoring cost-effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Administration, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Tutoring Programs for Struggling Readers: The America Reads Challenge. Rutgers Invitational Symposia on Education.
Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed.; Woo, Deborah Gee, Ed. – 2001
As a result of the America Reads Challenge Act of 1997, numerous tutoring programs have been established to help ensure that every child reads independently by the end of third grade. This book describes exemplary America Reads programs across the country as well as other effective early literacy interventions, including Reading Recovery, the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Developmental Learning Center Designs.
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Hashway, Robert M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1989
Describes several models for the design, evaluation, and delivery of developmental programs, including the Expanded Individualized Prescriptive Instruction system (which includes placement, counseling, and intervention phases), and the Developmental Pyramid Model (which includes diagnosis, prescription, evaluation, and advising/tutoring). (DMM)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Delivery Systems, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education
An Adult Higher Education: A Vision. A Policy Discussion Paper.
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National Inst. of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester (England). – 1993
The objectives, curriculum, and role of higher education and key policy and practice issues were reassessed against the backdrop of recent and predicted demographic, economic, and political changes and trends in Great Britain. Special consideration was given to the fact that "mature" learners now constitute the majority of entrants into…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Change Strategies