Argues that peer-assisted learning is a good option for teachers concerned with providing as much individual help as possible to their students. Describes one such peer tutoring program. (FL)

This manual for tutors participating in the Homework Helper Program (which employs high school students or graduates as tutors for elementary school students) opens with generalizations of the characteristics of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students intended as a base of understanding for tutors. The next section focuses on the varying…

A project has been planned to help individualize instruction and change the learning climate by using elementary school pupils to assist each other in learning. A "tutorial community" is being established involving an entire ghetto school of 1,500 students (Pacoima Elementary School, Los Angeles) in intra- and intergrade tutoring, student…

This is a first-year report of an attempt to create a tutorial community in an elementary school. The goal is a learning community of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and researchers who are expected to work together in planning and conducting instruction. The students will hopefully develop a capacity for self-directed study and…

Different forms of peer tutoring within college and universities are described and compared for effectiveness, including cross-year and same-year small-group, individualized, supplemental, diadic, reciprocal, fixed-role, writing process, and distance tutoring. Three methods are found to be widely used, demonstrated effective, and meriting expanded…