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Bette Chambers; Robert E. Slavin; Nancy A. Madden; Philip Abrami; Michele K. Logan; Richard Gifford – Elementary School Journal, 2011
This study evaluated the relative effects of Tier II computer-assisted tutoring in small groups (Team Alphie) and one-to-one tutoring provided to struggling readers in 33 high-poverty Success for All (SFA) schools. In this year-long study, struggling readers in the Team Alphie schools were tutored in groups of 6. In the control schools, students…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Grade 2, Tutoring
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Wepner, Shelley B. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1987
Computers can be used to teach reading to reading-disabled students in three modes: the tutor mode, tool mode, and tutee mode. The computer's ability to improve motivation and to provide versatility is examined. A vignette is presented of computer use in the instructional program of a reading-disabled nine-year-old. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education
Strang, Harold R. – 1971
The effectiveness of one-to-one tutorial elements was tested in an automated reading program possessing objectives similar to those in the Instructional Objectives Exchange (IOX) and a self-contained reward system. Twenty-one sixth-grade retarded readers from poverty backgrounds constituted three groups equated on reading proficiency. Groups were…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth