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Filep, Robert T. – NSPI Journal, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Discovery Learning, Feasibility Studies
Peer reviewedBlustein, David L.; Burton, Yvonne – College Student Journal, 1979
Successful disadvantaged college students were used as peer tutor-counselors in a program designed to meet the needs of incoming disadvantaged freshmen. Retention rates were compared to a group of disadvantaged students without peer tutor-counselors. The higher rate of retention by the group utilizing tutor-counselors is discussed along with…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Higher Education, Intervention
Peer reviewedMenges, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
This paper describes a program to provide supportive services to high risk students in psychology beyond the beginning course. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Graduate Students
Showell, Ellen – Opportunity, 1971
Tutoring programs are coordinated by the Florida State University Office of Student Community Inner Action, a university-funded organization which originated several student volunteer programs in Gadsden County. (JM)
Descriptors: After School Education, Black Students, College Students, Community Services
Download full textReisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1989
This document comprises the first volume of a three-volume study, mandated by the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, on domestic and foreign tutoring programs for disadvantaged elementary and secondary students that involve college students. This volume summarizes the results of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Taylor, Derek B.; Fleming, Margaret – 1973
The Resident Tutor Project, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was initiated in June 1968, in an effort to prevent skill deficits from progressing to such a point that they are beyond remediation within the relatively short span of a child's school years. The project was designed to provide additional resources to…
Descriptors: College Students, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
de Silva, Deema; And Others – 1992
This handbook provides assistance for tutors in Operation Success, a program to provide limited-income and first-generation college students with academic support services to enable them to persist and graduate from Wichita State University (Kansas). The program provides an interconnected series of academic support services; peer tutoring is…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cognitive Style, College Students, Communication Skills
Michael, Jacqueline R. – 1989
This document includes a report describing the Precollegiate Enrichment Program at West Georgia College and a handbook developed by the program. The program was designed to meet both financial and volunteer needs of college students and to encourage children, ages 10-12, to continue their education past high school. Twenty academically talented…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Students, Compensation (Remuneration), Disadvantaged Youth
Walters, John; Marcus, Laurence R. – 1985
Eight New Jersey State colleges which shared essentially the same goals and offered similar financial aid packages were studied in order to determine the relationship between persistence rates of disadvantaged students in opportunity programs and the role of faculty in such programs. Student data were provided by New Jersey's Equal Opportunity…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Preparation
Teaching and Learning Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1972
Since its inception in 1963, the Homework Helper Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Act, has provided an effective vehicle for the challenging of traditional theory in regard to the tutoring of educationally retarded children. It began on the assumption that children in slum area schools could benefit from tutorial…
Descriptors: After School Education, College Students, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching
Matthews, Dorothy, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1980
The focus of this journal edition is remedial writing instruction in high school and college. Articles in the journal are: "The Remedial Student is Different," by Karl K. Taylor; "Writing Apprehension: (I) Combating Fear of Failure," by Donna K. Gorrell; "Writing Apprehension: (II) Where Does Fear of Writing Come…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Basic Skills, College Students, Developmental Programs
