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Peer reviewedLevenkron, Jeffrey; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
This article attempts to determine whether contingent access to a tutor would serve to motivate more positive academic behavior. Subjects were 16 fourth-graders. Results indicate that contingent application of individual tutoring did, indeed, increase academic performance in 15 of the students. (Author/HMV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Elementary School Students, Individual Instruction
Download full textConrad, Eva E. – 1975
This study provided a review of literature related to peer tutoring and investigated the effects of three variables on peer tutor and peer tutee performance. The variables were (1) the achievement level of the tutor, (2) brief tutor training in reinforcement and corrective feedback procedures, and (3) tutor expectancy about tutee performance. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Expectation, Feedback, Grade 2
