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Peer reviewedScruggs, Thomas E.; Osguthorpe, Russell T. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Compared cross-age and peer tutoring interventions conducted within special education settings. In Experiment 1, learning disabled (LD) and behaviorally disordered (BD) students tutored younger LD and BD students. In Experiment 2, same-age LD and BD students alternated tutor and tutee roles. In both experiments, tutors and tutees exhibited…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
Download full textFuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project that investigated the effectiveness of class-wide, peer-mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of sustained oral reading practice, in which…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Asselin, Susan B.; Anderson, Alice – 1984
This study examined the variables that affect vocational teachers' implementation of an educational innovation--peer tutors for mainstreamed special education students. The researchers explored teachers' perceptions of the peer tutoring program prior to the inservice session, at the completion of a pilot test, and prior to the second year of…
Descriptors: Exceptional Persons, Inservice Teacher Education, Mainstreaming, Outcomes of Education
Kite, Julian M. – 1991
This paper describes programs for high risk students in the St. James R-1 (rural) School District in Missouri. The participants, staff, procedures, and effectiveness are briefly discussed for each program. Programs at the elementary level include: (1) an intervention program for K-2 students identified through screening; (2) a prescription…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Azcoitia, Carlos; Sloan, Charles A. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1990
Describes and evaluates a peer tutoring program in the Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools that provided academic assistance to special needs students who were experiencing difficulty in reading and mathematics in vocational education classes. Objective was to provide individualized instruction and support for disadvantaged, special education, and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Individualized Instruction, Learning Problems
