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Sara M. White; Leiah J. Groom-Thomas; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Tutoring has emerged as an especially promising strategy for supporting students academically. This study synthesizes 33 articles on the implementation of tutoring, defined as one-to-one or small-group instruction in which a human tutor supports students grades K-12 in an academic subject, to better understand the facilitators and barriers to…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Program Implementation, Individualized Instruction
Wayne Harrison; Steve Higgins – Education Development Trust, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on education systems worldwide, leading to significant learning loss, exacerbating existing educational inequalities and disproportionately affecting disadvantaged students. Governments around the world have begun to invest in large-scale tutoring initiatives as a key component of their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
Andre Joshua Nickow; Philip Oreopoulos; Vincent Quan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Tutoring--defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents--is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today. Within the past decade, dozens of preK-12 tutoring experiments have been conducted, varying widely in their approach,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Sevano, Dennis – Executive Educator, 1994
Students can fall behind early in reading and never catch up. Hoboken (New Jersey) teachers are using Reading Recovery, an innovative New Zealand program, to provide low-achieving first graders with daily tutoring sessions for 18 to 22 weeks. Reading Recovery offers confidence-building strategies that combine skill-and-drill and whole-language…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Low Achievement
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. – 1988
This research abstract describes two studies: first, "Class Instructional Programs with Autistic Children; Group Structures and Tutoring Models" (Debra M. Whorton et al.) and, second, "The Use of Explicitly Trained Peers To Facilitate the Social Behavior of Autistic Children" (Andrew Egel and Michael Shafer). Both studies investigated effective…
Descriptors: Autism, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Gordon, Edward E.; And Others – Training and Development Journal, 1989
The literacy training program of Imperial Educational Corporation is a small-group, individualized approach to basic skills instruction for employees lacking basic skills. Pilot studies how significant growth in academic and study skills and positive motivational changes in relation to learning and work. (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Corporate Education
Conrad, Eva – 1974
This brief illustrated booklet suggests procedures for the incorporation of planned peer tutoring into daily classroom rountines. This method of instruction has been found to be usable with a variety of academic tasks and is seen as one way to achieve individualization of instruction. The booklet focuses on the definition of peer tutoring;…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs
Gray, William A.; Gray, Marilynne E. – 1983
A mentor-assisted enrichment program was initiated in the 1981-82 school year for gifted/talented (GT) 6th and 7th graders in a public elementary school in Vancouver. The mentors were 11 pre-service teachers who used a "Four Phase Enrichment Model" to assist pairs of students to plan, carry out, complete, and then present an enrichment project to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Enrichment Activities
Chapline, Elaine B. – 1974
The Reading Skills Centers, funded under Title 1 of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, were designed to improve reading skills of the target population consisting of optional assignment children who were economically deprived and retarded in development of reading skills. Centers were operated in six elementary and one junior high…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Schools, Individualized Instruction, Junior High Schools
Lyons, Linda; Oxman, Wendy G. – 1974
A Diagnostic and Remedial Reading Center was organized at the District Office to service 160 pupils in District 22, Brooklyn, elementary schools who were diagnosed as non-learners. A total of 60 pupils were given remediation and therapeutic services four sessions a week during the regular school day. An additional 20 pupils received intensive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction, Junior High School Students, Low Achievement
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Topping, K. J. – Higher Education, 1996
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…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Cross Age Teaching