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Traci Sitzmann; Jayme Ratcliff – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Peer coaching is a formal program whereby successful students support their peers in attaining academic and social goals. Survey results unveiled that 90 percent of coachees felt peer coaches enhanced learning, and 100 percent felt peer coaches engendered a sense of community and belonging. More than 85 percent of coachees planned to persist in…
Descriptors: College Students, Coaching (Performance), Tutor Training, Student Attrition
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Herring-Harrison, Tina J.; Gardner, Ralph; Lovelace, Temple S. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2007
The purpose of this article is to present a classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) model successfully implemented with children who are deaf. Classwide peer tutoring is relatively easy to implement and is both teacher- and student-friendly. A large and growing body of professional literature documents the effectiveness of systematic peer tutoring models.…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Tutor Training, Peer Teaching
Kessler, Caren – 1981
The development and implementation of a tutor training program designed to eliminate adult illiteracy in one area of North Carolina are described in this paper. Various sections of the paper provide information about (1) the history of the program, which was initiated by staff members at the learning center of the Blue Ridge Technical College in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Higher Education, Literacy Education, Program Content