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Invernizzi, Marcia; Rosemary, Catherine; Juel, Connie; Richards, Herbert C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1997
Analyzes the first three cohorts of a one-to-one community volunteer tutorial program, an integral part of the Charlottesville (Virginia) City Schools' plan to ensure that all first- and second-grade children learn to read. Demonstrates that two sessions of one-on-one tutoring per week by a trained, supported, and supervised community volunteer…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
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Moore, Vanessa; Callias, Maria – Educational Psychology, 1987
Reports a case study of an instructional program developed for a nine-year-old boy who was a severe underachiever in both spelling and reading. The program used a structured, systematic instructional approach along with token reinforcement. Both reading and spelling showed improvement that was sustained beyond the treatment period. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Corrective Reading, Learning Problems
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Greer, R. Douglas; Polirstok, Susan Rovet – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1982
Two experiments are reported concerning the effects of the differential use of verbal approval by problematic adolescents serving as tutors in a remedial reading program for an inner-city school. Data are discussed as evidence that tutors had acquired the ability to recruit reinforcement from the classroom for appropriate behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Delinquency, Junior High Schools, Peer Teaching, Reading Difficulties
Meier, Joanne D.; Invernizzi, Marcia – 1999
A study implemented and evaluated the Book Buddies model using National Service volunteers as tutors for high-risk first-grade students in a high-poverty urban setting. Using a design with a randomly assigned control group, results show that tutoring sessions produced clear effects. Children who received 40 Book Buddies lessons significantly…
Descriptors: Grade 1, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Banta, Trudy W.; Shoun, Sandra – Tennessee Education, 1981
Evaluation of Lenoir City, Tennessee pilot program using 14 retirees to tutor fourth and seventh graders one-to-one in reading using Laubach Reading Method indicated that fourth graders were more positive about the program; Laubach materials were too easy; and pre- and posttutoring California Achievement Test scores did not support reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 7, Individual Instruction
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Bessai, Frederick; Cozac, Con – Reading Teacher, 1980
Results of a Canadian study show that students with mild to medium reading disabilities benefited from tutorial remediation and continued to make normal progress the next nine months. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
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Chapman, Laura E.; Klein, Perry D. – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2001
This study evaluated the adaptation of individual reading tutorial methods to small-group instruction with 24 low-achieving readers in Grades 2 and 3. Students were instructed in phonemic awareness, phonetic decoding, high-frequency sight words, application of word identification strategies, and rereading of familiar text. Results support use of…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties
Kurak, Vernelle – General College Studies, 1975
Since its opening in the spring of 1972, the General College Reading/Writing Skills Center has provided students with tutorial help in reading and writing, and communication skills courses for credit. During its three years of operation, the Skills Center has extended its services through satellite centers to student populations other than those…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Communication Skills, Correctional Education, Prisoners
Heintz, Paul – 1975
The High School Homework Program was designed to provide eligible high school students, grades 9 through 12, with intensive individualized remedial instruction in reading, mathematics, and language as well as assistance with daily homework assignments. The major objectives of the program were to help students who were two or more years retarded in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, College Students, High School Students, Homework
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Anderson, Ora Sterling; Smith, Laura J. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Describes a college developmental reading laboratory model using peer tutors to provide training in comprehension study skills. Reports the results of a study evaluating the impact of training on student performance from the perspective of the participants. (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Models, Peer Teaching
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Ntiri, Daphne W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1999
Describes a university literacy tutorial program in which older adult college students received tutor training and then carried out one-to-one reading tutorials with adult male learners who were rehabilitating addicts. Offers two case studies, and shows that the program had a significant impact on tutors' commitment to community volunteerism and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Watkins, Alice V. – 1981
The study investigated three models--the traditional classroom reading instructional model, a one to one tutorial model, and a reading resource center model--for providing reading instruction to 110 disadvantaged inner city children in junior high school educable mentally retarded (EMR) classes. The effectiveness of programmed instructional…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Junior High Schools, Mild Mental Retardation
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Abbott, Sylvia P.; Berninger, Virginia W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1999
Twenty children (grades 4 through 7) with reading disabilities participated in 16 one-hour individual tutorials over a one-month period with instruction for half the group including structural analysis and alphabet principle training without structural analysis. Children in both groups improved reliably and equally in reading and related measures.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Criner, Beatrice H., Ed. – 1974
This report is based upon one component of an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I project in the Lenoir County, North Carolina, public schools for the 1973-74 school term. Programed Tutoring was developed as a supplement to classroom teaching. The three basic skills of reading (sight reading, word analysis, and comprehension) are broken…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Operations Research, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1972
Project Upswing is a pilot study sponsored by the Bureau of Educational Personnel Development, U.S. Office of Education, designed to determine whether first grade children with minimal learning difficulties can be aided by volunteer tutors. A major goal is to determine whether children receiving this personalized assistance make more progress than…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 1, Learning Problems, Primary Education
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