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Rodríguez, Emma Leticia Canales; Robelo, Octaviano García – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
This work reports on the results of research on modalities of mentoring in the area of social sciences at two Mexican universities and their relationship with the academic trajectories of their students. The analysis focuses on the need to identify influences of different mentoring forms on students' academic performance. The theoretical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Public Colleges, Tutors, Tutorial Programs
Gaeta, Matteo; Mangione, Giuseppina Rita; Miranda, Sergio; Orciuoli, Francesco – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
This work proposes the definition of an Adaptive Conversation-based Learning System (ACLS) able to foster computer-mediated tutorial dialogues at the workplace in order to increase the probability to generate meaningful learning during conversations. ACLS provides a virtual assistant selecting the best partner to involve in the conversation and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Workplace Learning, Tutorial Programs
O'Connell, Ann Aileen; Bol, Linda – 1995
Interpreting information regarding health risks, crime statistics, and government polls requires some ability to use and interpret probabilities. Studies have shown that even after training or coursework in probability and statistics, people still have many difficulties solving probability problems. The thesis of this document is that helping…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Herrmann, Thom – 1982
The use of student proctors or tutors for a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) has been considered essential; however, the cost of tutorial training programs may be prohibitive. In an attempt to develop an equivalent but less expensive alternative, students (N=219) participated in an evaluation of the use of a VAX computer system as a…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education

Kirchherr, Robert – 1974
A model for the audiotutorial learning system was developed which consists of three stages. In the first stage, prelearning activities, the teacher and the learner communicate the goals, objectives, needs, expectations, and rationales for the learning. Also in this stage is a diagnosis-prescription test designed to structure and initiate the next…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Design, Models
Blalock, Susan – 1994
Writing centers have been working diligently to create a centripetal space to draw as many faculty and students into its collaborative learning process as possible. The degree to which writing centers have succeeded in this mission should now lead beyond the sanctum of the centers and even beyond the validated space of satellite centers. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Telecommunications, Tutorial Programs
Curtis, Deborah A.; Hurtado, Rosemary – 2001
The America Reads Project is a program that trains San Francisco State University (SFSU) undergraduates to serve as tutors in local elementary schools. This paper focuses on the findings from the 3rd year of the project (1999-2000). For the 3rd year, 55 undergraduates were trained in a 3-unit course. Eleven elementary schools participated in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Essid, Joe – 2000
A paper describes a project in which a writing center created a Web site using digital video (DV) along with essay texts, scenario notes, and a Web-based response exercise, in order to better prepare writing tutor apprentices for a range of ethical and pedagogical dilemmas which might occur. The paper begins by discussing reasons for the project…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hypermedia, Tutor Training, Tutorial Programs
Starks, Gretchen – 1980
The tutor training sessions at the University of Minnesota Technical College are outlined and an evaluation of the program is included. A bibliography of 38 print and 3 videotape resources for tutor training is also included. Appendixes contain the tutor and tutee handbooks and a study skills kit specifically designed for tutor training.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Secondary Education
Ehly, Stewart – 1977
Characteristics of an effective peer tutoring program for exceptional children are reviewed, and program implementation models are described. Specification of outcomes, assessment of attainment of outcomes, monitoring of project implementation, and field testing or use of a pilot project are among the characteristics of an effective program noted.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children, Models, Peer Teaching
Hoffman, Charles – 1977
The historical development and contemporary research analyses of peer tutoring with normal and handicapped children are reviewed. The evolution from the monitorial system of the mid nineteenth century to programed tutoring programs with disadvantaged students in the 1960's is traced. Benefits for teachers, tutees, and tutors are described.…
Descriptors: General Education, Handicapped Children, History, Peer Teaching

Flippo, Rona F.; Hetzel, Charles – 1992
This paper presents the seven assessment instruments used by the Student Literacy Corps project at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, to document tutee progress and tutor assessment. The paper includes: (1) the Flippo Interest Inventory (for assessing tutee's attitudes toward reading); (2) instructions for the tutor to give to students on how…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Peer Teaching, Reading Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Kinkead, Joyce – 1985
The importance of writing centers as places where process-centered, student-centered teaching takes place is emphasized in this paper. To illustrate this point, the paper provides profiles of four tutors--two males and two females--and discusses ways to improve tutor-student conferences, including having the tutor focus the conference on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition), Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
Wilson, Jimmie Joan – 1981
The paper describes a program developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in which hearing impaired students in the academic mainstream receive tutoring/notetaking support services. A notetaking system is employed in which the notetaker writes from four to six readable copies of notes at one time. The notetaker, a trained normally…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Students, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education
Walker, Carolyn; And Others – 1980
The Learning Assistance Center's peer tutoring program at Stanford University is described in this paper. Ways are suggested to register students as tutees, match them with tutors, operate tutoring sessions, account for and control tutoring hours, evaluate tutoring performance, and train peer tutors. In this program, tutors are Stanford students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching, Program Administration