This ESEA Title 3 project provided tutoring assistance to fourth, seventh, and 10th grade students who were underachievers in reading and/or writing as determined by a correlation of students' test results on the California Test of Mental Maturity and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP). Three groups of students were randomly…

A one-year study of peer tutoring in social studies was conducted among seventh grade students in Buchanan, Georgia. Although peer tutoring took place in the experimental group, the same text, supplementary materials, classroom activities, and teaching methodologies were used in both the experimental and control groups. Both groups were given…

Protosynthex III (PSIII) is a language processing system developed as an (as yet inadequate) experimental vehicle for testing student responses, with a view to constructing a model of an automated tutor. A version of the PLANIT system was modified so that a human tutor could be used to make instructional decisions in response to students'…

THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT THE CENTRAL MISSOURI STATE COLLEGE INDICATE THAT IN COMPARISON TO THE CLASSROOM LECTURE APPROACH TO COMPOSITION, THE LECTURE-TUTORIAL METHOD SAVES TIME AND RESULTS IN A SHARPER FOCUS OF SUBJECT MATTER AND A MORE INTENSE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PUPIL AND TEACHER. A CLASS OF 25 STUDENTS WAS GIVEN ONE HOUR PER…

Two pilot studies, which were conducted to determine the effectiveness of a home-based tutoring program operated within an accredited special function school, and to guide the development of an on-going tutoring research project are presented. The population served, from which study populations are drawn, has included, in over 20 years, 5,000…