This study reviewed the organization and operations of the University Tutoring Program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) through the 1986-1987 academic year. The study also described the demographic and academic characteristics of the year's tutoring population and analyzed the outcomes of the use of tutoring services. A database for the…

Reviews factors affecting the tutoring process, including students' expectations of tutors; equitable tutor-tutee relations; and tutor gender. Considers ways tutoring can capitalize on peer relationships and reasons that students earn higher grades with a same-sex tutor. Suggests that tutor training address cultural sex stereotypes, ethnic…

A special course was designed to aid undergraduate subjects in preparing for the Graduate Record Examination--Quantitative (GRE-Q). The course included a short one-session discussion (Anxiety Reduction Session) of the GRE and its uses, and four sessions devoted to specific instruction in the basic mathematics required for the test and strategies…