Results of analyzing variables impacting the behavior of four ninth-grade poor-achieving tutors and 20 seventh-grade tutees with reading difficulties found that giving tutor points for reinforcing tutee responses was the most important component of the tutoring package for both tutors and tutees. (Author/JDD)

The final report describes the Winnebago (Nebraska) Behavior Analysis Program to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate services and strategies for improving the educational services to K-12 handicapped students in small, rural school districts. The program has four major components: the Curriculum Management System (to assist in assessing…

This survey was undertaken in order to assess the nature of tutoring projects that have been implemented in schools, particularly in urban schools. It was also an attempt to locate examples of a particular kind of tutoring project, one designed primarily to promote learning in the tutors. This objective is based on the assumption that secondary…