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Cohen, Donald – 1978
This mathematics peer-tutoring program offers students an opportunity to seek help with specific mathematical difficulties from peer-tutors. The program is designed to free faculty to offer outside-of-class help to students who are experiencing extreme difficulty in understanding concepts. In addition, the tutors are available to offer help during…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Higher Education, Instruction, Peer Teaching
Peer reviewedHawkins, Thom – College English, 1978
Describes the training program for new tutors which is employed by the Student Learning Center at the University of California at Berkeley. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching, Training
Peer reviewedLayton, Carol A.; Lock, Robin H. – Journal of College Orientation and Transition, 2003
Studied the effects of training in learning style preferences on the ability of tutors to select appropriate learning strategies for student with disabilities. Findings for 68 tutors show that tutors were more successful in creating individualized strategy plans for students after training with the learning style chart. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedSilver, Marcia – College English, 1978
Describes a credit-bearing course at Brooklyn College which trains undergraduates to be peer-tutors in writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching, Training
Download full textHall, Conner – 1975
A program for tutorial assistance and tutor training at the University of Texas at Austin is described in this document. The tutorial assistance program attempts to provide help with both study skills and specific course content, since students experiencing academic difficulty in a specific course may request tutoring aid, not realizing that their…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedSakiey, Elizabeth – Reading World, 1980
Discusses the selection and training of student tutors for college reading programs, the supervision of tutors, and studies of the effectiveness of college-level peer tutoring programs. (GT)
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Research, Higher Education, Peer Teaching
Senterfitt, Pam; Toothaker, Allen – 1969
Designed as a possible 1-semester university course outline, this manual describes a training program for "Campus-Community Organizers" (CCO). The program enables college students to establish a liaison with poor communities in order to find ways in which the vast financial and technical resources of universities can become more…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Higher Education
Peer reviewedTessier, Judith A. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1992
Discusses the design and use of a Hypertext tutorial for teaching choice of access points to beginning cataloging students at San Jose State University. The tutorial, used widely by students, was designed to include linear, hierarchical, and decision tree metastructures to accommodate the multidimensionality of cataloging problems. (12 references)…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer System Design
