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Sekar, Sharada – 2002
A study was conducted to ascertain the relationship between volunteer reading tutors and the reading scores of the tutored students in the primary grades. Two groups of children were studied (N=33), and their progress in reading was observed over a period of six months. One group of children from an urban public school worked with a volunteer…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
Strong, Mary Winifred; Traynelis-Yurek, Elaine – 1983
Studied for its effects on the reading fluency of elementary school students, R. C. Heckleman's Neurological Impress Method has proved an inexpensive but effective method for motivating low achievement readers. Twenty-six subjects from grades 2 to 6 practiced reading in unison with a tutor during four 15-minute sessions a week. During the sessions…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Motivation Techniques, Reading Difficulties
Download full textGeorge, John E.; Prugh, Linda S. – 1974
This paper reports on an intensive, highly-structured, one-to-one tutoring system used as a model program. The "Tutor-Student System in Beginning Reading," the basic instructional material for the model program, was developed to train tutors to say and do what the reading specialist normally says and does when teaching reading in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
PDF pending restorationAvant, Glen R. – 1979
Nineteen children, aged 7 through 17, were pretested, individually tutored in reading for 12 weeks, and posttested in a study to examine the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control and locus of evaluation of children with reading disabilities. A reliable, valid measure of locus of control and locus of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Individualized Reading, Learning Disabilities
Avant, Glen R.; Weber, Margaret B. – 1979
Nineteen students, ranging in age from 8 to 18, served as subjects in an investigation of the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control (LOC) and locus of evaluation (LOE) of children with reading disabilities. Over a 12-week period, the subjects received from 24 to 60 50-minute sessions of individualized reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Individualized Programs, Locus of Control
Farren, Sean; Todd, Mary – 1986
A study investigated the ways in which the provision for adult literacy in Northern Ireland has developed since 1975. Questionnaires were circulated to program organizers, tutors, and other personnel to determine (1) enrollment patterns, (2) program organization and the evolution toward "adult basic education," (3) personnel resources…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
