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Peering into the Writing Center: Information Literacy as a Collaborative Conversation
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Zauha, Janelle – Communications in Information Literacy, 2014
This column focuses on the conceptual and practical aspects of teaching information literacy and opens with the question: What is a university library's relationship with peer tutoring services on campus? Peaceful coexistence, détente, or active collaboration? Armies of tutors employed through student services may routinely use a university…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Laboratories, Cooperation, Tutors
Empowering Student Writing Tutors as WAC Liaisons in Secondary Schools
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Jensen, Amber – Across the Disciplines, 2012
A pilot program in a public high school positions experienced student writing center tutors to become WAC liaisons who foster writing across the curriculum by raising questions, identifying needs, and providing support to their teachers with the goal of strengthening writing instruction school-wide. This article discusses the background and…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Writing Models, Pilot Projects
The BASIC Instructional Program: Conversion into MAINSAIL Language.
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Dageforde, Mary L. – 1978
This report summarizes the rewriting of the BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) (a "hands-on laboratory" that teaches elementary programming in the BASIC language) from SAIL (a programming language available only on PDP-10 computers) into MAINSAIL (a language designed for portability on a broad class of computers). Four sections contain…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Higher Education, Instructional Programs
Generating Cultures of Writing: Collaborations between the Stanford Writing Center and High School Writing Centers
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Tinker, John – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2006
For several years, the author has been working with colleagues in the Northern California Writing Centers Association (NCWCA) and the Stanford Writing Center to build bridges between college and high school writing centers. The writing center at Stanford defines one of its central goals as "celebrating a culture of writing" for all…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, College School Cooperation, Writing (Composition)
The Computer as a Tutorial Laboratory: The Stanford BIP Project.
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Barr, Avron; And Others – 1975
The BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) is an interactive problem-solving laboratory that offers tutorial assistance to students solving introductory programing problems in the BASIC language. After a brief review of the rationale and origins of the BIP instructional system, the design and implementation of BIP's curriculum information network are…
Descriptors: Branching, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
Collaborative Learning in an Introduction to Psychological Science Laboratory: Undergraduate Teaching Fellows Teach to Learn.
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Newcomb, Andrew F.; Bagwell, Catherine L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Discusses the use of a teaching fellows program (undergraduates teaching undergraduates) in a psychology laboratory class. Examines the goals, outcomes, curriculum, and implementation of the laboratory class and how these were impacted through the use of teaching fellows. Includes a table showing curriculum, content area, laboratory activities,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Objectives, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education