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Kaiden, Ellen – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1994
Describes a study conducted to examine whether personal and educational variables could be used to predict differences between students attending a tutoring center once and those attending more often. Indicates that perceptions of caring in the tutoring center and tutor/student relationship and transfer of learning were significant in predicting…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Individual Instruction, Student Attitudes
Millard, Jeremy – Teaching at a Distance, 1985
Several studies of distance education students' attitudes toward and need for local student-teacher contact time suggest that the provision of local tutorial time can be important for student success and should be planned by the tutors in consultation with their students. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Distance Education, Higher Education
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Fresko, Barbara – Educational Studies, 1996
Summarizes a study that utilized path analysis to examine the effects of tutor-tutee intimacy, tutoring conditions, and background variables on overall tutor satisfaction. Reveals higher satisfaction among tutors reporting greater intimacy with tutees. Discusses those variables affecting intimacy including ethnicity, same-sex pairing, and ease of…
Descriptors: Empathy, Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Individual Instruction