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Download full textDepartment of Education, Washington, DC. Planning and Evaluation Service. – 2001
Research has shown that well-designed tutoring programs that use volunteers and other nonprofessionals as tutors can be effective in improving children's reading skills. Students with below-average reading skills who are tutored by volunteers show significant gains in reading skills when compared with similar students who do not receive tutoring…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Peer Teaching
Peer reviewedNewell, Florence M. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1996
Describes a study that examined the effects of a cross-age tutoring program on computer literacy learning of second graders. Related literature is reviewed; the training program that used fourth graders to tutor the second graders is explained; and implications for future research is suggested. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedThrope, Lynne; Wood, Karen – Clearing House, 2000
Offers an overview of research on cross-age tutoring. Describes a successful cross-age tutoring program pairing 7th-grade with 3rd-grade students. Offers guidelines for developing a successful cross-age tutoring program. (SR)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Early Adolescents, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Eberwein, Lowell; And Others – 1976
The first section of this annotated bibliography is a selected review of research on the effects of volunteer tutoring programs. Reviews of 34 studies note the number, level, and type of students; type of tutors; area of U.S.; length, frequency, and duration of tutoring sessions; and achievement and other results of the tutoring programs.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews
