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Download full textOppewal, Tom – 1994
This paper reports on a study of early teacher training field experience to assess what was happening and the extent to which the objectives of the field experience were met. Objectives included a greater understanding of how students think and learn, improved ability when choosing tutoring strategies, and enhanced observation skills. Data were…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Barzansky, Barbara; And Others – 1983
An attending tutor program designed to increase faculty-student contact within an Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship was evaluated. Sessions were observed, written documents were reviewed, and faculty and students were interviewed in order to determine if the program was meeting its goals. Based on the evaluation data, the program was…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Credibility, Evaluation Criteria, Gynecology
Weiss, Jill A.; And Others – 1988
The effectiveness of using volunteer reading tutors to work with students with reading difficulties was examined. Changes in academic engaged time, active responding time, achievement, and student attitude were assessed, along with information from tutor evaluations. Nine intervention and 8 control students (grades 3-5) with mild handicaps…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Maintenance, Mild Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
Boyd, Vivian; And Others – 1986
Between 40% and 50% of Chemistry 103 registrants at the University of Maryland at College Park earn D, F, or W grades. Registrants for Chemistry 103 were randomly selected to participate in a pre-course refresher consisting of listening to as many as seven audio-tutorial tapes on the basic concepts and calculations of chemistry. Records were kept…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiotape Recordings, Chemistry, College Students
Abramson, Shareen; Lindberg, Gordon – 1985
A study was made to ascertain the achievement of Hmong refugee children attending elementary school in the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) and to examine relationships of classroom factors and school resource program characteristics to Hmong student achievement. A total of 237 students from 136 first through sixth grade classrooms…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Educational Resources, Elementary Education
Land, Warren A. – 1984
This literature review focuses on research concerning the effect of peer tutoring on student achievement and self-concept in the modern classroom. Studies of peer tutoring and student achievement deal with the effects of tutoring on the instructional process, student attitudes and interests, student motivation, and pupils' self-direction. More…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Dunlap, Linda L. – 1987
This study investigated young children's ability to solve probability problems and studied the cognitive processes proposed by Piaget and Inhelder as necessary to solve probability problems. The effects of tutorial and self-discovery training were measured and discussed. Results from 168 first-graders in five training conditions indicated that:…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Discovery Learning
Gibbs, Susan G. – 1982
The literature concerning tutoring in the elementary schools was surveyed and evaluated to determine the relative effectiveness of two types of programs--peer and cross-age tutoring. Studies involving each type of program were analyzed separately and effectiveness was judged by the gains in reading achievement experienced by both tutors and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching
Theall, Michael; And Others – 1980
This paper reports on two related instructional intervention projects: one completed and the other ongoing. The first involved a "Tutored-Videotaped-Instruction" (TVI) strategy in a three-course calculus sequence; the second, an NSF-funded project using microcomputers, television, tutoring, testing, and related technologies and methods…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Bonsness, Joan – 1977
The Northwest Special Education (NWSE) program model was designed to identify and provide analysis of academic and behavioral characteristics of rural area learning disabled students to facilitate prescriptive planning to be carried out through tutorial activities. Formal assessment procedures were carried out by the consultant while informal…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Identification
Pierog, John J. – 1975
Thirty-six second semester freshmen students on academic probation were matched according to sex, high school class rank, S.A.T. scores, and IQ. They were divided into two groups: control and experimental. Both groups were administered the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, after which the experimental group participated in four one-hour study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Probation, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Scandura, Joseph M.; Scandura, Alice B. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1987
Research on structural learning theory is reviewed as a base for designing computer-assisted instruction programs. An intelligent "Rule Tutor" emphasizing diagnosis and remediation for whole number concepts is described. (MNS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Research
Peer reviewedPolirstok, Susan Rovet; Greer, R. Douglas – Education and Treatment of Children, 1986
Results of analyzing variables impacting the behavior of four ninth-grade poor-achieving tutors and 20 seventh-grade tutees with reading difficulties found that giving tutor points for reinforcing tutee responses was the most important component of the tutoring package for both tutors and tutees. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Inner City, Low Achievement
Fowler, Mary Claiborne; Lindemann, Laura M.; Thacker-Gwaltney, Susan; Invernizzi, Marcia – 2002
A study discusses the effects of a second year of one-on-one intervention on the literacy development of struggling second graders. Twenty-six children participated in the study and were assigned to either a second year of intervention or a control group that received no further intervention services. Participants in the intervention group…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
Rodgers, Emily – 1999
A detailed analysis was conducted of the patterns of interactions between a child and a teacher in a one-to-one reading tutorial setting in the context of the Reading Recovery literacy program. The interactions between a teacher and two of her students were observed, videotaped, and analyzed. The participation of the two students in problem…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Interaction, Literacy
