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Young, Daniel E.; Meredith, Dawn C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
The resources framework provides a useful and generative model of student thinking and learning. In particular, it suggests various strategies for instruction such as priming resources and refining intuition that allow students to build on knowledge they already have. In this paper, we describe the affordances of the resources framework in guiding…
Descriptors: Intervention, Physics, Kinetics, Program Design
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O'Sullivan, Timothy P.; Hargaden, Gra´inne C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
This article describes the development and implementation of an open-access organic chemistry question bank for online tutorials and assessments at University College Cork and Dublin Institute of Technology. SOCOT (structure-based organic chemistry online tutorials) may be used to supplement traditional small-group tutorials, thereby allowing…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Tutorial Programs, Online Courses, Error Correction
Collins, John – ASPBAE Journal, 1974
The Teletutorial Project developed by the Council of Adult Education Victoria, Australia, provides educational opportunities for isolated groups through a telephone linkup system, with tutors and their groups communicating over large distances. The program and teaching methods are described, with personalization and mutual exchange emphasized. (LH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audio Equipment, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Foster-Harrison, Elizabeth S. – 1997
This pamphlet describes the key elements necessary for a successful schoolwide or classroom-based tutoring program, explores the benefits for tutors and tutees, and explains the steps that are necessary for the effective training of tutors. The first section looks at peer and cross-age tutoring, including terms and definitions and the benefits of…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Program Development
Lundell, Kerth T.; Brown, William E. – Academic Therapy, 1979
A peer tutoring model is described and suggestions for implementing peer tutoring programs are provided. The seven steps in the development of a peer tutoring program are: establishing a need, considering curriculum, assessing, selecting learners, selecting tutors, monitoring, and coordinating. (PHR)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Problems
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
Cross age tutoring is the subject of this document. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This document, one of a series of seven on this…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Program Design
Reglin, Gary – 1998
Research has shown mentoring to be a powerful alternative education and dropout prevention strategy for students at risk. This book is designed to help teachers, school administrators, case managers in the juvenile justice system, and others who work with at-risk students develop mentoring programs. Chapter 1, "Teachers Can Restructure Education…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Interpersonal Relationship
MacDonald, Ross B. – 1986
These three papers present an organizational framework, an evaluation plan, and a training plan for an integrated cross-curricular tutorial program at Los Medanos College. First, the position paper establishes a standing committee to oversee the Second Generation Tutoring Program and the policies under which the program operates. It focuses on the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
Glassman, Susan – 1984
As part of its peer tutor training program, the writing/reading center at a Massachusetts University conducts a videotape production workshop in which experienced tutors plan, write, and act in a video script used for training new tutors. To proceed with such a program requires no professional skills or special talents, but a television studio…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Schrader, Beverly; Valus, Ann – Academic Therapy, 1990
In this cross-age tutoring project, severely learning-disabled high school students tutored primary students who were having difficulty with reading. Tutors were trained in good teacher behaviors (giving positive and corrective feedback, avoiding overprompting) and in the use of established techniques for teaching reading. (JDD)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education
Ehly, Stewart; Eliason, Michele – 1980
This bibliography is intended to provide the educational researcher, classroom teacher, and school administrator with information that will enable them to instigate a peer tutorial program. It includes articles on forms of tutoring that have potential for the involvement of children as tutors, such as structured tutoring and programed tutoring.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This is an overview of a project in which cross-age tutoring is used as a means of enhancing the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This teaching method is referred to as the "Learning-Tutoring Cycle." It is recommended that secondary students who are in need…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Individual Instruction
Bernstein, Judith – 1980
This literacy program guidebook contains specific information for use by volunteer tutors involved in an adult literacy project in Ottawa, Canada, as well as general information on reading instruction techniques, literacy skills, literacy curricula, and resource materials. The origins, objectives, structure, and operations of the Ottawa program…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Guidelines, Instructional Materials
Rauch, Sidney J., Ed.; Sanacore, Joseph, Ed. – 1985
Intended for use by volunteer tutors who work one-on-one with individuals, this handbook offers information related to successful volunteer programs. The first chapter of the handbook provides a foundation for training volunteer tutors by discussing important qualities for successful reading programs and topics to be considered for instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Program Development, Reading Comprehension
Weinstein-Shr, Gail – 1988
Project LEIF (Learning English through Intergenerational Friendship) is a program begun in 1985 in which an intergenerational core of tutors was trained to teach English to refugees in the Philadelphia area. The program has since expanded and been replicated in four other cities. This manual is intended to help those individuals or groups…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Immigrants
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