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Marissa Strassberger; Barbara Condliffe – MDRC, 2024
High-dosage tutoring-defined as consistently scheduled tutorials during the school day in which students work with a trained tutor in small groups (for example, four students to one tutor) at least three times per week--is among the most promising educational interventions for improving student learning. Despite their appeal, high-dosage tutoring…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors
Evthokia Stephanie Saclarides; Jen Munson – Learning Professional, 2024
For coaches, access to classrooms isn't straightforward and is far from guaranteed. Access is a prerequisite for coaching, yet there are many barriers beyond a coach's control, making their job difficult to impossible. In this article, the authors detail how five administrative and structural forces shaped coaches' access to teachers' classrooms.…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutors, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
Dan S. Petrescu; Armin Yazdani; Cassidy R. VanderSchee; Christopher A. Bailey; Faygie Covens; David N. Harpp – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2021
Large undergraduate courses make it difficult for students to achieve learning outcomes, in part due to the lack of resources available to course instructors to support student learning in these intimidating and often impersonal settings. One way to support instructor teaching and student learning is the implementation of undergraduate peer…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching
Campbell, Anita – Pythagoras, 2015
Pressure to increase the throughput of university students in ethical ways has been a catalyst for innovations to improve learning and student success. Student dropout occurs mostly in the first year of study and poor performance is a major contributor to dropout even if the underlying reason for the poor performance is not academic…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Introductory Courses, Tutorial Programs, Engineering Education
Wilks, Judith; Fleeton, Ellen Radnidge; Wilson, Katie – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
The Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme-Tertiary Tuition (ITAS-TT) has provided Australian government funding for one-to-one and group tutorial study support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending Australian universities since 1989. It has been a central plank supporting Indigenous university students in their studies.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Tutorial Programs, Transitional Programs, Tutors
Calma, Angelito – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
Tutor development is an essential part of academic staff development, yet is comparatively under-researched. This article examines what tutors value as most and least important in a program. Using data from more than 300 participants in three years, and using the dimensions or worth, merit and success as an analytical framework, the article…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Beginning Teachers, Tutors, Beginning Teacher Induction
Williams, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2010
All public schools in the United States have been caught up in educational reform. This has especially been true since the 1980's. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a major component in how schools have changed the process of educating students. In response to reform efforts, many schools have relied on their own knowledge to achieve higher…
Descriptors: National Standards, Educational Change, Tutors, Tutoring
Ananda, Nandang; And Others – 1997
There is no lack of debate regarding year-round schooling. Emotions run high when school districts tamper with the "traditional" agrarian school calendar and adapt a year-round calendar. This study examines one program in a multi-track year-round elementary school, a tutoring program delivered during the students' intersession. Through…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, School Schedules
Thurlow, Martha L.; And Others – 1989
Social validity data were collected for three educational interventions designed to increase the academic engaged time of elementary special education students: (1) a reading tutorial intervention, (2) a special education consultation intervention, and (3) a home-based consultation intervention. A total of 29 students, 14 parents, 21 teachers, and…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Elementary Education, Home Programs, Mild Disabilities

Blackbourn, Vonda A.; Blackbourn, J. M. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
An adolescent with moderate mental disabilities tutored a seven year old in arithmetic. The peer tutoring program increased the mathematics performance of the first grader, successfully integrated the adolescent into a more typical classroom environment, improved the accuracy of the tutor's mathematics performance, and resulted in changes in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1
Ukpo, Eugenia Onwu – Open Learning, 2006
This paper reports on a research study that draws on the perceptions of students, tutors, field centre coordinators and central management to evaluate the support services provided to students in the National Teachers' Institute's distance teacher training programme. Within a conceptual framework that built upon models of teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Questionnaires
Holladay, John M. – 1990
During winter semester 1989, Monroe County Community College (MCCC) developed a Writing Fellows program and introduced a Writing Center into the Learning Assistance Lab (LAL). Both these iniatives were part of the school's writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) efforts which had been launched in fall 1987. Writing Fellows are specially-trained peer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Laboratories, Newsletters, Peer Teaching
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
Holladay, John – 1989
An evaluation is provided of two aspects of Monroe County Community College's (MCCC's) writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) program: a Writing Center and peer tutoring by instructor-nominated Writing Fellows. Introductory remarks in Part 1 highlight the benefits of the college's programs for faculty, Writing Fellows, the college administration, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Peer Teaching, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1987
Albuquerque (New Mexico) public schools used a Title IV Part A grant to improve academic and behavioral functioning of American Indian elementary and secondary school students. The program's focus was tutoring provided to 899 Indian students from Canoncito Navajo Reservation, the Isleta Pueblo, and the city. A project coordinator, a resource…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education
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